Iran: dormant

This year over 6 thousand tons of grapes will be harvested from 1973 hectares of irrigated land in South Khorasan province.
The harvest will continue until late in september.
The most important species of grapes are “Askari”, “Yaghouti”, “Hosseini”, “Pikami”, “Shahroudi” and near 14 local species.
Also there are about 1400 hectares of non-irrigated land in the province, where grapes are grown, which have been suffering from drought since a few years ago.


The international teachersunion Education International calls for action to stop the execution of Kurdish teacher unionist Farzad Kamangar.
They ask the national teacher associations to publish a banner on their websites and give visibility to the situation of Farzad Kamangar and other teachers in Iran.
They also ask to appeal the Iranian government to:
review the case of Farzad Kamangar and to give further clarification about the charges against him and other teacher trade unionists currently detained,
commute Farzad’s death sentence
desist from the use of torture and allow Farzad Kamangar to have unimpeded contact with his family and his lawyer,
stop the harassment against the relatives of Farzad Kamangar and members of the Committee to stop Farzad Kamangar’s death sentence,
be open for a peaceful dialogue regarding the professional concerns of teachers in Iran.


Despite the denial last week by the chairman of the Education and Research Commission of Iranian parliament that the dismissal of elder professors at universities in Iran are political, more then 42 professors have been forced into retirement during the tenure of the current administration.
Based on unconfirmed news Dr. Karim Mojtehedi, Dr. Ali Sheikh Ulislami, Dr. Ghlamhosein Ebrahimi-Dinani, Dr. Mohammadreza Shafei-Kadkani, Dr. Reza Davari, Dr. Mohsen Jahangiri and Dr. Ebrahim Bastani-Parizi from the university of Tehran are dismissed.
Daily Etalaat expressed concern over the forced retirements of more than 30 prominent professors last Thursday in an interview with president Ahmadinejad. The president acted surprised, as if this was the first time he heard the news.
The undeniable fact of forced retirements began on July 22.

In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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