Iran: worries

President Ahmadinejad will become a candidate and run for a second term as president.
Wednesday told his media-advisor this to Reuters.
This was the first time that one of Ahmadinejads topadvisors confirms the president's decision to compete in the presidential elections.


Iran opposes the build of an underwater oilpipeline in the Caspian Sea to transport oil from Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan.
According to Hossein Noqrekar-Shirazi, the deputy head of Iran's oil minister in international affairs, Irans objections are based on the fact that the pipeline will be constructed on the seabed and could pose threats to the ecological system of the Caspian Sea.
He added that Iran is against any plan that can disturb the ecological balance of the Caspian Sea. Russia also opposes the construction of the pipeline.
The transfer of oil produced in the Caspian Sea to global markets is considered a major obstacle for the littoral states.



The family of ethnic Azeri activist Abdullah Abbasi Javan says he has been held in Tehran's Evin prison for more than two months without being allowed to contact anybody and without being charged.
He was arrested along with nine others on November 14 while celebrating the anniversary of an Azerbaijani national hero. The others were released later.
His brother told RFE/RL that Javan during a previous arrest was mistreated and tortured and fears he is undergoing the same abuse this time.
When he was arrested in 2007, Javan was charged with promoting "pan-Turkism" and spreading propaganda against the regime.
(Photo RFE/RL)


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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