Iran: looks

Police in Qom arrested a cleric from ayatollah Montazeri's office after he, Mojtaba Lotfi, published a sermon of ayatollah Montazeri.
The daily Kargozaran wrote that Montazeri in this sermon criticized the leaders of the country for describing Iran as the freest country in the world while legitimate and legal liberties inside the country are taken away.
Montazeri was seen as successor to ayatollah Khomeini until the late 1980s when he became
too openly critical of political and cultural restrictions.


Iran and Pakistan agreed to finalize a multibillion-dollar gaspipeline Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) even if India does not join the project.
The project dates from 1994, but has been delayed by repeated disputes over prices and transit fees.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Mottaki said at a joint pressconference with the Pakistan Minister of Foreign Affairs that India can join the project whenever it is ready.
Initially the IPI was founded to transfer 60 million cubic meters of natural gas per day
from Iran to Pakistan and India.



According to Baluchistan Peoples Front dozens of villages have been destroyed by bombardments in the last three days in sistan-e-Baluchestan province.
The clashes started afterc security forces and rebels of the People's Resistance Movement of Iran met in the mountains between Zahedan and Kerman province.Also innocent people have been killed in the bombardments.
The rebels claim to have seen more then 50 dead bodies of the security forces, Iranian authorities ordered all its different government agencies and media to avoid broadcasting any news to prevent it from spreading.
October 11th the bombexpert Osmaan of the Peoples Resistance Movement in Iran has
been assassinated. The organization claims to know who is responsible and that further
investigations continue.
According to reports of people from Zahedan and the Western part of Baluchistan the heavy bombardment in Rood Mahi Mountains still continue.


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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