Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 29 – More than half of Irans hospitals have declared bankruptcy in the past four years according to the head of Medical Department of University of Gilan (northern Iranian province). Dr. Fariborz Ghanaati stated that since the government introduced a scheme four years ago to privatise
The Christian Science Monitor: With the US and Europe fixated on Iraq, where insurgents are trying to stop the masses from adopting democracy, next door in Iran a parallel struggle for democracy remains largely unnoticed. It shouldn’t, especially given the West’s concern over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Young Iranians, who make up more than half the population and are restless from massive unemployment, have been pushing for Western-style political and social reforms for nearly a decade. 
Iran Focus: Berlin, Dec. 29 – Three members of the European Parliament took part in a demonstration outside the Iranian embassy in Berlin in protest to the Iranian regimes practice of stoning people to death. A large number of Iranian exiles yesterday afternoon joined the three The MEPs, Alexander Alvaro, Holger Krahmer, and Alexander Lambsdorff, from the German Free Democratic Party. Iran Focus: Berlin, Dec. 29 – Three members of the European Parliament took part in a demonstration outside the Iranian embassy in Berlin in protest to the Iranian regimes practice of stoning people to death. A large number of Iranian exiles yesterday afternoon joined the three The MEPs, Alexander Alvaro, Holger Krahmer, and Alexander Lambsdorff, from the German Free Democratic Party. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 28 – A young man who was accused of killing a member of Irans security forces when he was a minor isIran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 28 – A young man who was accused of killing a member of Irans security forces when he was a minor is
Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 28 – Two young men were hanged in public in the Iranian city of Mashad (northeastern province of Khorrasan) yesterday and on Sunday after authorities accused them of rape. One of the young men identified only by his first name, Mohammad-Reza, was publicly hanged in Hedayat blvd. in the city-center. Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 28 – Two young men were hanged in public in the Iranian city of Mashad (northeastern province of Khorrasan) yesterday and on Sunday after authorities accused them of rape. One of the young men identified only by his first name, Mohammad-Reza, was publicly hanged in Hedayat blvd. in the city-center. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 28 A teenager who is currently in one of Irans Centers for Reform and Education (Juvenile Prison) is to be hanged to death within three weeks for a crime allegedly committed when he was fourteen. The boy only identified as Mohammad T. was accused of fatally stabbing another boy who was involved in a scuffle with his brother. Mohammad M. died from his wounds in hospital on October 17, 2000. Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 28 A teenager who is currently in one of Irans Centers for Reform and Education (Juvenile Prison) is to be hanged to death within three weeks for a crime allegedly committed when he was fourteen. The boy only identified as Mohammad T. was accused of fatally stabbing another boy who was involved in a scuffle with his brother. Mohammad M. died from his wounds in hospital on October 17, 2000. 
