The Iranian regime hanged seven citizens on Christmas morning and at least 12 others in the days before and after the holiday, according to Iranian dissidents monitoring the human rights situation.Seven prisoners being held in Iran’s Abdelebad prison were hanged “at dawn on Christmasday,” according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an Iranian opposition group.The latest round of state-sanctioned killings—which have hit an all time high in the past year—came just days after President Barack Obama praised Iran in an interview at the White House and said that it could be a “successful” member of the international community.
Oh, and about the MEC's speculation that maybe someday the time would be right for a post-American embassy in Teheran:
On Tuesday the Iranian regime quickly rejected the idea.
There will be no reopening of embassies.
Official Iranian Fars News reported:Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham categorically rejected a media report that Tehran and Washington plan to talk about reopening of their embassies, underlining that the negotiations between Iran and the US merely focus on the nuclear issue.“The talks between the two countries (Iran and the US) are merely focused on the nuclear issue and this subject (the reopening of the two countries’ embassies) is not on the two countries’ agenda of talks,” Afkham told reporters in Tehran on Tuesday.Afkham’s remarks came after an Arab media misquoted an unidentified source in the Iranian foreign ministry as saying that “Tehran and Washington might talk about the reopening of their embassies”.She rejected the Arab media news report, and said, “No official of the Iranian foreign ministry has spoken to the media in this regard.”
A response of contempt to outstretched-hand gestures. Arguably the world's most predictable pattern
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