IRAN: EU PRESIDENCY CONDEMNS THE EXECUTION OF MONIORS

in a new statement issued by the EU Presidency, France, the bloc condemned the execution of minors by the mullahs' regime in Iran on October 31. "The European Union urges the Iranian authorities to ban all cases of execution of persons who were minors at the time of the crime, whatever their age when they were tried and without artificially excluding cases of execution under lex talionis, which now account for all of these executions," the statement said. The EU calls for a "binding and generally applicable" mandate to make sure the Iranian regime complies. The statement refers to an earlier "circular" by the Iranian regime in 2005 on the same issue which was not put into effect.