A lamp for your house, not for the local mosque....

In an unexpected move the Iranian President has ordered the release of British sailors. Whatever the underlying reasons, I am pleased that these young officers are released and can return to their families or to their posts. Let us hope that in similar situations, the political leaders would act in a similar fashion. The point that needs to be emphasised, however, is why Mr Ahmadinejad does not show a similar approach to many Iranian citizens who are improsined without any justifiable reason. The latest of these imprisoned citizens are the members of one million signitures campaign group who were arrested in the Laale park in Tehran. If one is to take this new move seriously, the President needs to be brave enough to tackle these issues too. Otherwise, it would be right to conclude that what he did, may have been a damage limitation exercise, rather than a manifestation of what he has claimed, " Islamic fairness". If this move is an indication of your "Islamic fairness", Mr President, as we say in Farsi, " a lamp fit for your house, should not be fitted in the local mosque".....Apply it to Iranian prisoners too.