TEHRAN - "A drug dealer named Sahra Bahrami (...), convicted of having sold and possessed drugs was hanged Saturday morning." So the regime in Tehran announced on the website of the national TV execution, by hanging, Zahra Bahrami, 46, a woman with dual Iranian and Dutch citizenship. He had been arrested in anti-government demonstrations of 2009 and then sentenced to death for drug trafficking.
To save her life were not enough involvement or intervention of the Netherlands Parliament. They have been convicted of cocaine imported into Iran. According to the agency Mehr, in a search of his house the police had found 450 grams of cocaine. The woman's family argue that those on the drug charges were fabricated by the Iranian authorities after the arrest of Bahrami, in December 2009 in protest against the re-election to the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June last year.
The news of the death sentence was announced on January 2 last year and the government in The Hague had tried to get information from Tehran and to have held its diplomats could meet. Request rejected by Iran, which does not recognize dual citizenship and therefore believed Zahra Bahrami's only town.
The Dutch Foreign Minister, Uri Rosenthal, returned today to demand an explanation of the case, Iranian ambassador in Holland, which was convened at the ministry. In the evening, sources in the Dutch government announced that they had frozen relations with Iran. The demonstrations against the re-election of Ahmadinejad were cut short with a budget of tens of thousands of deaths and arrests.
On 24 January, two men, Mohammad Ali Jafar Kazemi and Hajaghai, also finished in jail for having participated in the protest rallies, were hanged for cooperation with the People's Mujahedin, the largest organization of armed opposition to the regime. 
To save her life were not enough involvement or intervention of the Netherlands Parliament. They have been convicted of cocaine imported into Iran. According to the agency Mehr, in a search of his house the police had found 450 grams of cocaine. The woman's family argue that those on the drug charges were fabricated by the Iranian authorities after the arrest of Bahrami, in December 2009 in protest against the re-election to the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June last year.
The news of the death sentence was announced on January 2 last year and the government in The Hague had tried to get information from Tehran and to have held its diplomats could meet. Request rejected by Iran, which does not recognize dual citizenship and therefore believed Zahra Bahrami's only town.
The Dutch Foreign Minister, Uri Rosenthal, returned today to demand an explanation of the case, Iranian ambassador in Holland, which was convened at the ministry. In the evening, sources in the Dutch government announced that they had frozen relations with Iran. The demonstrations against the re-election of Ahmadinejad were cut short with a budget of tens of thousands of deaths and arrests.
On 24 January, two men, Mohammad Ali Jafar Kazemi and Hajaghai, also finished in jail for having participated in the protest rallies, were hanged for cooperation with the People's Mujahedin, the largest organization of armed opposition to the regime.
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