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A man was hanged in public in the central Iranian city of Natanz, a semi-official daily reported last Sunday.The daily Kayhan identified the man as 36-year-old Baqer Sajjadi.He was accused of murder. The report did not state when Sajjadi was executed.
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Iranian regime’s judiciary sentenced a young girl to death. Delara was only 17 when she allegedly committed the crime. Her sentence has been approved by the regime’s Supreme Court.
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Reuters reported that the Iranian regime has refused to let U.N. inspectors set up cameras at an underground plant where it is set to begin installing 3,000 centrifuges for full-scale enrichment of nuclear fuel, diplomats said on Friday.
Associated France Press also reported on Thursday that the Iranian regime is stopping UN inspectors from installing cameras at a nuclear facility where Tehran intends to place 3,000 centrifuges for industrial-scale uranium enrichment.
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Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Wednesday that it was the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, not himself, that was responsible for making decisions over Tehran’s controversial nuclear activities.“The state’s major policies on the nuclear issue are decreed by the Supreme Leader. The government is obliged to carry them out and is the entity for making announcements on this matter”, Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the official news agency IRNA.Ahmadinejad added that he himself was responsible for “announcing” the country’s positions on the nuclear front but that it was Khamenei who was ultimately responsible for the nuclear decisions.
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The German presidency of the EU on Thursday condemned the hanging of four men in Iran for deadly bombings in oil-rich Khuzestan province last year which the Islamic republic blamed on Britain and Canada. "The European Union deplores the execution of four Ahvazi Arab men on January 24 sentenced to death in Iran for alleged involvement in terrorist activities in the Ahvaz region," it said in a statement. "The EU has raised with the Iranian authorities its concerns about the conduct of the trial that led to these sentences and the defendants' lack of access to lawyers." The 27-nation bloc called on Iran not to execute three other men accused in the case and to grant them a fair and public hearing with full transparency in all court proceedings. "The EU reiterates its longstanding opposition to the death penalty in all circumstances," it added. Iran's ISNA news agency reported that the executions of the four were carried out at the jail of the provincial capital of Ahvaz, in front of the victims' families. Reports in November said a total of 10 men had been sentenced to death for the bombings in Ahvaz, which is home to a large community of ethnic minority Arabs and has been plagued by unrest since 2005. Iranian officials had put the blame for unrest in Khuzestan on Britain and Canada.
