Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to condemn the German government over the murder of an Egyptian woman in a courtroom in Dresden. In his letter to Ban, Ahmadinejad asked: “Isn’t it the time to firmly condemn the recent murder and call for punishment of the factors of this scandal?” Marwa al-Sherbini, a 31-year-old Muslim woman, was stabbed to death by a man in a courtroom in Dresden, against whom she was to testify.
Ahmadinejad alleges that Germany had kept silence in this regard. In his letter, he wrote that this was “no wonder as long as they humiliate their own nation when it comes to Zionists,” according to Iranian news agency reports. Ahmadinejad added that it was “astonishing that certain European and American leaders claim defending human values and remain silent over the issue.”
He also voiced astonishment over Ban stance, saying if he did not demand justice and fulfill his duties as UN secretary-general, greater problems would be created for humanity and more people would become victims of injustice and discrimination.
Meanwhile on Friday, Iranian police have fired tear gas and used batons to disperse opposition supporters gathered at Friday prayers at Tehran University. Thousands of people gathered chanting their support for Mir Hossein Moussavi, a candidate in the disputed election on 12 June. Opposition leaders were due to appear in public for the first time in weeks.
The regime in Tehran has announced a new atomic chief following the resignation on Thursday of Gholam Reza Aghazadeh. Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's former envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, will take up the post, the government announced. It is not immediately clear why Aghazadeh, the long-serving head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, stood down from the job, but he is said to be close to Moussavi.
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