Iran: spoken, written, done

Massoud Mohammadi, a professor at Tehran university and involved at the Iranian nuclear programm, has been killed by a bombing.
The bomb was attached to a motorcycle which was parked near his house. The bomb was exploded remotedly.
PressTV reports that securityofficials say that the system of the bomb used in the attack had been related to a number of foreign intelligence agencies, particularly Israel's Mossad.
No suspect has been arrested.
source: english.aljazeera.net, presstv.ir



Human Rights activist in Iran.
Two of the arrested Bahaimembers are ill.
Journalist Nader Karimi was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Arash Torrabi former employee of the Presidential office, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
In the borderarea of Kurdistan are 4 Kurds killed and wounded.

According to a spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry the three American hikers will be tried soon.
The family of Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27 said they were hiking and had strayed across the border accidentally.
Espionage can be punished by death in Iran.
source: reuters



Foreign Policy has a recent interview with Shirin Ebadi.
In this interview she tells among other things that she certainly would be arrested when she went home.
Ebadi always supported U.S.-Iranian talks about nuclear matters and was not happy with the money funneled by the Bushadministration.She still thinks that outside aid for the democracy movement is a mistake.
But also her viewingpoints changes with the changing situation in Iran.
During the interview she mphasized repeatedly that you cannot do business with the regime.
In the nuclear issue she is convinced that only an Iranian government that respects humanrights and rules by consent can be a good credible partner for the West to talk with about the Iranian nuclear program.
The events of the last months, the showtrials and the lies by the regime woven in a documentar about the dead of Neda Agha Soltan, lead Ebadi to say that the country is heading for a military dictatorship, but that's short-term.
Ebadi says that this regime is finished, unless it changes course soon, and dramatically.
source: foreignpolicy.com

The blog GermantoEnglish has a translation of an interview with Shirin Ebadi that was published 11-1-2010 in the German newspaper Badische Zeitung.
Ebadi said in this interview also that the power of the Revolutionary Guards is very great and that noone can predict what will happen.
She says that she hopes that things don't escalate and that negotations will take place between the government and the opposition.
Many people wish for a democratic system where state and religion are separate. She herself personally would prefer this as well, but the most important for her are real free elections.
How exactly this democracy will look like in the end needs to be negotiated.
source: germantoenglish.wordpress.com, badische-zeitung.de



English Translation Summary of Mehdi Karoubi's 5-pointplan.




Amnesty International urges Iramian authorities to release immediately the 33 Mourning Mothers who were arrested Saturday in Laleh Park, Tehran.
Nine of the women are believed to suffer from illnesses, increasing the concern for their well-being.




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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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