Iran: reservations

Bahman Soleymanian, who was sentenced to death as a minor, is scheduled to be executed February 5th says his lawyer.
All efforts to postpone the execution have not given any results.
Soleymanian is imprisoned for 12 years already, since he was 15 years-old.




In Iraq happened Monday on the road between Nasiriyah and Basra an truckaccident in which 7 Iranian pilgrims were killed.
26 other people, including women and children, were wounded.that 30 years ago
The pilgrims were on their way from Mashhad to Najaf.


Daily WashingtonTimes writes that Monday Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi appealed for the Iranian government to respect human rights and encouraged the U.S. government and private groups to reach out to Iranians despite the arrests of activists who have met with Americans.
She said this after the announce of the State Department that a U.S. women's badminton team will travel to Tehran this week to participate in an international tournament.
During a speech at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace she said that 30 years ago the human rights situation in Iran was bad when the country was ruled by a dictatorial shah, and now, after the revolution is also bad.
Ebadi said there should be three levels of dialogue between the U.S. and Iran: people to people; president to president; and parliament to parliament.
She also said that despite the harassment, she would return to Tehran as scheduled on Friday.
She said: "I'm an Iranian, I was born in Iran, I was raised in Iran, I work in Iran, and I will die in Iran".


Iran launched Tuesday for the first time a domestic research satellite into orbit.
The satellite, named Omid (Hope) was launched into space with a Safir-2 rocket.
Omid will round the earth 15 times a day and send and receive information to earth.
President Ahmadinejad congratulated the Iranian people with the launch.
Iran plans to o put a series of satellites into orbit by 2010 that will improve national disaster management programs and the country's telecommunications network.
In 2021 Iran plans to send out its first astronaut.


The head of the Iranian chamber of commerce that the country should import its European goods via Turkey in place of the Persian Gulf countries.
The political relations with Turkey have improved considerably so both cpountries can benefit, he also said that there is an imbalance between Iranian imports and exports through some Persian Gulf countries. With these trade contacts billion.
More than 10,000 Iranian firms have investments in the UAE.
Iranians have recently been treated in a humiliating way by some of these trade partners, among other things fingerprints are taken from every Iranian visiting the UAE.


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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