Iran: two worlds

President Ahmadinejad wrote a letter to parliament stating that if his bill to rearrange subsidies is not originally accepted, the Economy Reform Plan should be shelved.
The aim of the plan is to reduce dependencies on oil revenues and tackling the country's root economic problems, including a rising inflation.
Fars reported that the rapporteur of the Majlis Energy Commission said that the government had asked for 35 billion dollars while the parliament only approved of 8.5 billion dollars.


Out of 70 arrested students, the authorities released 40 detainees, but reportedly transferred the remaining 30 students to Tehran’s Evin Prison.
On 24 February, security agents attacked the homes of four Amir Kabir students, Ahmad Ghasaban, Nariman Mostafavi, Mehdi Mashayekhi, and Abbas Hakimzadeh and detained them.
The students are former and present members of the university’s Islamic Students Association.
Four other students Majid Tavakoli, Hossein Torkashvand, Esmaiel Salmanpour and Kourosh Daneshyar are since 5 February detained in Evinprison, after they and 20 others were arrested at a ceremony to honor the first Iranian prime minister after the revolution of 1979. This annual event had been announced publicly.
The students went on hungerstrike, protesting their treatment.

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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