Iran: to put an end

Morteza Alviri,former Tehran mayor and top advisor of Karroubi was released yesterday against a bail of $200,000.
He was arrested in September and was the head of the committee set up by Mousavi and Karroubi to follow up on prisoners.
Some websites had reported the release of Behzad Nabavi, however this news is denied by his family. Nabavi was arrested June 16 and was accused in one of the first showtrials, he has not been tried.

The two journalists, who are in hungerstrike Fariba Pajooh and Hengameh Shahidi,are brought to the clinic of Evinprison.
Studentactivist Mojid Dorri , Mostafa Taj-Zadeh, member of central councils of both the Participation Front and Mojahedin Enghelab organizations and Abdollah Ramazan-Zadeh, deputy president of Islamic Participation Front, will be tried next week.
Journalist Ali Sami-Zadeh member of the media committee of Participation Front is arrested.
In Sistan en Baluchistan are various cleric principles of sunni schools arrested after being summoned in court.
Molana Osman, principle of Madinatol-Oloom school, Molana Mohammad-Esmail Zahi, principle of Esha’a Altohid school in Zahedan, and Molana Abdol-Rashid Shah-Navazi, deputy principle of Dorolhoda school in Khash are arrested.
source: hra-iran.net




Iranian government wants to open a bankaccount for 36 million people to compensate them with cash for higher food and energy prices when subsidies stop.
Business newspaper Sarmayeh writes cash compensation can mount to $17 a perso, and that 70% of the population including children, would be covered.
They also wrote that a family of four with a monthly income of about $400 would receive $68, but that this would only cover the expected increase in gas and electricity prices.
To end subsidies on food and gasoline is a a key part of Ahmadinejad's plans to reform the economy.
Critics say that removing subsidies can lead to increasing inflation and social unrest.
source: reuters.com



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