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Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2011 12:47 am**

The Dutch government has frozen all contacts with Iran in protest over the hanging of a Dutch-Iranian woman.

The Dutch foreign ministry said it was "shocked, shattered by this act by a barbaric regime".

Sahra Bahrami, aged 46, was hanged for drug smuggling early on Saturday, Iranian officials said.

Her family accuses Tehran of fabricating the case against her after she was detained for taking part in anti-government protests in 2009.

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The Dutch foreign ministry announced the freeze in all contacts with Iran on Saturday.

"This concerns all official contacts between diplomats and civil servants," spokesman Bengt van Loosdrecht told the AFP news agency.

Any meetings or contacts with the Iranians now must have prior written approval.

The ministry also advised all dual Dutch-Iranian nationals against travelling to Iran, saying that Dutch consular officials would now have no access to them if they needed any assistance.

Sahra Bahrami's execution brings the total number hanged in Iran so far this year to 66, according to media reports.

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2011 7:52 am**

66 this year?

The year just started!

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:41 am**

The Iranian government is in full panic mode still over the Greens.

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:00 am**

And I imagine the rash of protests across the Middle East is freaking them out all the more.

That has been a question on my mind. With all these Arab countries protesting and overthrowing their repressive governments I can't imagine the Persians are going to sit idle while the Arabs one-up them.

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:17 am**

I imagine the remaining leaders of the Green movement are working as quietly as possible to set something up.

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2011 12:04 pm**

Insofar as there are any left.

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:34 pm**

The official Iranian line is that these protests are 1979 Iran style Muslim uprisings against secular governments and thus everyone is being just like them. Of course what else are they going to say? I imagine some of them are getting very nervous.

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