Iran: decline

The International Herald Tribune writes that hundreds of people protested outside the French embassy in Tehran against a EU agreement to remove the People's Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) from the EU's terrorist list.




Bahman Salimian, ,who was 15 years old when he murdered his grandmother in 1996 and for this after 12 years in prison was sentenced to death, is according to his lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, in imminent danger of being executed on February 5th 2009.
Various times the execution was postponed due to the fact that familymembers of the victim had pardoned him and took bloodmoney. There is still one uncle seeking execution.
Salimian is now 27 years old.


The honeyproduction in Khorasan Razavi province is reduced by 90 percent because of drought.
There are 80 thousand hives in the province with a harvest capacity of 400 tons of honey per year, but this volume has been reduced to just 40 tons in the current year.
A few growers have moved their colonies to the city of Bandar Abbas, but there were no good results.


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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