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A man was hanged in public in south-eastern Iran, the semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami reported on Monday.
The man, identified as Touraj Siahkamari, was hanged in the town of Iranshahr. The report did not state the date of the execution.He was accused of drug trafficking.

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Iranian authorities hanged four men in a prison in the restive city of Ahwaz, south-west Iran, on Wednesday, the state-run news agency ISNA reported.The unnamed men were accused of involvement in the twin bombing in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan in January 2006.
The province, which borders Iraq, has a large Arab population.Dissident Arab activists in Khuzestan have accused the government of setting up trump charges against Arab activists fighting against Tehran’s “repressive policies”.A string of top Iranian officials, including hard-line President Ahmadinejad, have accused Britain and Canada of being behind the bombings in Ahwaz.

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According to the Associated Press the Iranian regime said on Monday it has barred 38 members of a U.N. nuclear inspection team from entering the country, in what appeared to be retaliation for sanctions imposed last month over its contentious atomic program. The head of the parliamentary committee of national security and foreign policy, Alaeddin Borojerdi, had been quoted by a state run “students' news agency” as saying Iranian regime had barred 38 inspectors. Last month, the U.N. Security Council imposed limited trade sanctions on Iranian regime because of its refusal to cease uranium enrichment, a process that produces the material for nuclear reactors or bombs.

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Associated Press reported that the Iranian regime plans to start installing thousands of centrifuges in an underground facility next month, U.N. officials said Friday, paving the way to large-scale uranium enrichment, a potential way of making nuclear weapons. This news agency added: The officials, who demanded anonymity because the information was confidential, emphasized that Iranian officials had not officially said the country would embark on the assembly of what will initially be 3,000 centrifuges at Natanz. But they said senior officials have informally told the International Atomic Energy Agency the work would start next month.