Tehran - The leadership in Tehran is susceptible to an appeal from Germany on the release of two detained in Iran German reporter: "Our judicial system is totally independent and take their decisions under pressure," said the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Ramin Mehmanparast. "Our German friends should know that the application of pressure to change the opinion of the court, will backfire." Mehmanparast warned against "politicizing" a legal question.The Foreign Office in Berlin, referring to the warning from Tehran only that the government was continuing to work out that the two journalists to return "as soon as possible" to Germany. At the weekend it had a call from 100 leading figures from politics, economy, culture and sport, where, in which the release of the two reporter called.
belonging to the Solidarity in the Bild am Sonntag ", the editors, reporters, several federal ministers, representatives of all parliamentary parties, the German Federation of Trade Unions, business leaders and Nobel and Oscar winner took part. The two journalists were arrested last October in northwestern Tabriz Iran, as they wanted to interview the son of the Iranian woman sentenced to death Sakine Mohammadi Aschtiani.
Aschtiani said at the weekend, the two reporters to try to sue the newspaper "Bild am Sonntag", because this would "shame on me and the country" to be related. In diplomatic circles, has been speculated that perhaps Aschtiani was forced to step.
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