Iran: rumors

President Ahmadinejads health causes stir in Iran again.
Last week the president canceled all his appointments for the upcoming 4 days, due to a cold.
This was the second time within 3 months that Ahmadinejads health was in the news.
He also canceled a visit to Kermanshah province, due to airpollution.


Global Voices Online reports that Haftan, an Iranian site for cultural news is filtered by the authorities.
The government did not explain any reason.


An Iranian footballclub says that it has suspended three officials for allowing the club's female team and its youth male squad to play against one another.
The club Esteghlai suspended two officials for 1 year, one official for six months and a fourth official was fined.
The game, the first in 30 years was held in Southern Tehran, January 20th.
The daily Vatan-e-Emrooz wrote that the men won the game with 7-0.
The clubtrainer, Mansourian said that the incident happened because the trainghours of the two teams were overlapped and that there was no wrongdoing involved.
Videoclips taken by cellphones were used as evidence.


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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