Public Execution In Iran (Photo from Iranian Freedom)Iran's Economy Runs Out Of Steam -- Forbes Magazine
As markets floundered amid the credit crunch, Iran's leadership celebrated the West's economic crisis. On Oct. 11, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared, "The claim that the free market manages all things is a huge lie and benefits only thieves and criminals." Two days later, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei decreed that the West's financial crisis was a sign of "the ineffectiveness of liberal democracy-based policies."
The Iranian leadership may rue their words. Ahmadinejad has run Iran's economy into the ground. On Oct. 11, just a day after Ahmadinejad declared prices in decline, the Central Bank reported inflation above 30%. Such figures are still likely low. Both Shahab News and Aftab-e Yazd have noted the tendency of Iranian officials to pull numbers from thin air.
Parliamentarians and journalists might complain but, as the Islamic Republic reverts to a Soviet-style command economy, regime intolerance toward technocratic expertise grows. Hojjat al-Eslam Ha'eri Shirazi, the Supreme Leader's personal representative in the city of Shiraz, explained, "The banking system wants to demand interest rates in exchange for loans to the people. We will not let them do so. And should a couple of banks go bankrupt as a result, so what? What is worse anyway, closure of factories or banks?"
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Iran expects Russia to honour commitments on Bushehr plant -- Daily Times
New approaches to halt Iran's nuclear program -- Jerusalem Post
Berlin to Impose National Sanctions on Iran, Report Says -- Deutsche Welle
West 'working with' Iran on nuke plant -- Sydney Morning Herald
Iran Blames Western Intolerance for Losing UN Seat Vote -- Voice Of America
Japan 'thrashes' Iran in contest to secure seat on UN council -- The Age
Iran to stop executing children -- The Telegraph
3 comments:
That is not in public, it is in a military outpost, there are no public executions in Iran as the government is islamic and it is against the rules of islam to execute in public, i lived in iran for five years, i would know.
This picture is completely unrelated to the topic of the article anyway and reduces the credibility of any point you are trying to make.
As Ali said above, it is also incorrectly labeled for the reasons he mentioned. In addition, the picture is outdated.
Not even military executions like the one shown in the picture have happened since the 80s.
Please be just and do not perpetuate incorrect stereotypes.
WNU Editor: I have refrained from posting a number of pictures of public executions in Iran because of their graphic content. I choose this picture because the faces were blurred. These pictures were taken at a military installation, but they were released for the public. The execution of gays and others have been done in public.
Two: The execution and/or murder of critics in Iran has a direct berring on their economic and busines development and perception with other countries. Some Iranians and their allies may feel that the two are different .... I respectfully disagree.
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