Iran Live Coverage: Imprisoned Journalists, Elections, & the BBC
Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 6:09
Journalists Arrested Last Weekend2136 GMT: Currency Watch. Radio Farda supports the report in Kalemeh (see 1746 GMT) that the Iranian Rial has dropped sharply to break the 40000:1 level vs. the US dollar.
The site also says that the price of gold is rising, with a 15% premium on prepayment for gold coins to be delivered next month.
2036 GMT: Press Watch. The mother of journalist Saba Azarpeyk, speaks of her daughter's arrest:
Fifteen to twenty minutes after Saba left the house, someone knocked on the door, I asked who it was and I heard Saba saying, "Mum don't open the door, they do not have a warrant." After some very tense moments, she was taken down to the car.
Then my son arrived, and one of the officials that was standing behind the door slapped him on the face several times.
The mother then ran to Azarpeyk as she was being taken away and urged her to remain strong.