Iran: intention

Stop Child Executions reports that Abu Moslem Sohrabi,24 year-old, is sentenced to death for a murder he should have committed in 2001, when he was 17 years old.
His execution has been approved by the Supreme Court and passed to the Office for the Implementation of Sentences, the body that is responsible for seeing that all sentences, including executions, are carried out.
Amnesty International asks for urgent action,for instance by writing to the Head of Justice, Shahroudi.
source: Stop Child Executions


Iran plans to invest $150million in bordersecurity to block the entry of terrorists and drug smugglers into the country.
This calendaryear $73 million will be invested in sealing the borders.
Iran is located on a major drugssmuggle route from Afghanistan to Europe. There are also terroristic groups in borderregions.
In the south are a number of terrorists killed in the Lar-region (Fars province). On the eastern border, the Pakistan-based group Jondullah is active, and in the west attacks come from the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) an off-spring of Kurdish PKK.
source: Press-TV


The Iranian film "Outcasts 2" by director Masoud Dehnamaki breaks all boxoffice records in Iran.
The movie premiered on March 21, 2009 (the first day of the Persian New Year) and brought the first-week earnings to $1,300,000.
The fmovieis part of a trilogy and recounts the story of a gang of thieves and junkies who emerge in the front line of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88).
The first part of the trilogy sold more than $1,000,000 in 2008.
The movie is on show in theaters across the country and is expected to continue its success over the next weeks.
source: Press-TV



Iran plans to open some of its oil and gas fields to foreign investment to help boost output by 2015 to 5.3 million barrels per day, from the current 4.2 million barrels per day.
The Iranian oilminister Gholam-Hossein Nozari said last week that the oilreserves have grown last year from 90 billion barrels to 138 billion barrels.
Exploration had been carried out without any foreign involvement.
With the end of the last calendaryear there were 10 international oil and gas tenders.
source: Press-TV



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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