SIAMEK RAHMANI IN TEHRAN: It s two weeks since Lionel Messi lifted the World Cup and a month since Iran - aka Team Melli - left Qatar after losing to the USA in their final group match.
Tehran, Dec 24 (Prensa Latina) The soccer player Nasr Azadani, sentenced to death in Iran, according to the West, generates the controversy that predominates here this week, while evidence of his involvement in the murder of three security personnel is being revealed.
translator: they would tell us in the first two weeks that they would release amir. and that amir will be released by the end of the week. reporter: then came the charge of the crime of war against god. nasr-azidani charged. relating to involvement of two militia operatives and one policeman during protests in late november, a charge they denied. now sources close to nasr-azadani he and others have had their charges upgraded by the court. a charge punishable only by execution. there s more. in the regional court, in the west, cnn has confirmed through 1500 tasvir in court documents that 23 more people have been charged with the same crime, pun
Reports that Iran plans to publicly hang a young professional
footballer for campaigning for women’s rights and basic human rights
underlines my decision made many years ago to give religion a swerve.