Tehran. .- After months of intensive diplomatic, Germany secured the release of two journalists held in Iran last October while trying to interview the child Shakin Ashtiani Mohammadi, the Iranian woman accused of adultery, which is in danger of being stoned. Diplomatic sources confirmed that an embassy official Germanic moved today to the city of Tabriz in the northwest, to accompany reporters, Marcus Hellwig, Jens Koch, to Tehran, where they are expected tonight.
The fact that the actual German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle Saturday trip to Tehran to pick up his two compatriots highlights the diplomatic dimension has been the case. The Fars news agency says, however, that the German foreign minister visited Iran to discuss bilateral relations, Germany is the leading European trading partner of Iran, and analyze the regional situation in light of developments in the Arab world .
This will be the first trip in months of a European foreign minister to Iran, a country under international sanctions and maintaining a fierce struggle with the international community because of suspicions of its nuclear program to military use. The incident comes just 24 hours after the Government, contrary to his custom, apologized to Spain for the arrest on Monday in Tehran of a Spanish diplomat and qualify the action of error.
The Iranian regime accused Western countries, particularly the U.S., the UK, France and Israel of inciting the protests, the opposition held since June 2009, and in which fraudulent complaint the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. On Monday, after protests, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, demanded that the Iranian authorities to immediately cease the violent repression of opposition demonstrations, which has convened a new mobilization for Sunday.
Hours before the release of the journalists, the local student news agency ISNA revealed that both had been sentenced to 20 months imprisonment, which was commuted to a fine of 36,000 euros. "Once the court together, the two defendants have been sentenced to 20 months in prison for a crime against state security.
However, this sentence was commuted for two defendants in a fine of 500 million rials (equivalent to about $ 50,000), "he said. The reporters, who work for the Sunday "Bild am Sonntag" has been more than five months in prison in Tabriz, and were accused of espionage in principle. But months later, after intervening Germanic diplomacy, they were deemed guilty of transgressing the laws of entry into the country, which entered with tourist visas and without accreditation as journalists.
The German Foreign Ministry had to exert further force Tehran to allow two families, the mother of the photographer and the reporter's sister, could visit last Christmas. A month earlier, both had appeared for the first and only time on state television in a kind of confession in which a voice in farsi translated his words and claimed they had been deceived by the opposition Iranian Mina Ahadi, founder and director of the Committee International against Stoning, group campaigning to free the woman.
The pulse took a new dimension when earlier this 2011, Ashtiani own Iranian media announced that he planned to take action against two German journalists for trying to interview his son and called on foreign media to forget about your process. The woman, an ethnic Azeri and 43 years old, he suggested, even the action of foreigners rather than harm it did, in a statement that the Iranian opposition abroad considered "forced." Ashtiani's case rose to the international arena in the summer of 2010, after his first attorney alleged that he was accused of adultery and was to be sentenced to death by stoning.
The news triggered a wave of global solidarity, which has forced the Iranian regime to keep suspended the sentence and has uncovered the discrepancies within the national leadership. In September, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and said the process is ongoing and that the sentence was not final.
Weeks later, the judiciary insisted, however, was shown the participation of women in the murder of her husband, and therefore would be hanged and that crime prevailed over that of adultery. 
The fact that the actual German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle Saturday trip to Tehran to pick up his two compatriots highlights the diplomatic dimension has been the case. The Fars news agency says, however, that the German foreign minister visited Iran to discuss bilateral relations, Germany is the leading European trading partner of Iran, and analyze the regional situation in light of developments in the Arab world .
This will be the first trip in months of a European foreign minister to Iran, a country under international sanctions and maintaining a fierce struggle with the international community because of suspicions of its nuclear program to military use. The incident comes just 24 hours after the Government, contrary to his custom, apologized to Spain for the arrest on Monday in Tehran of a Spanish diplomat and qualify the action of error.
The Iranian regime accused Western countries, particularly the U.S., the UK, France and Israel of inciting the protests, the opposition held since June 2009, and in which fraudulent complaint the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. On Monday, after protests, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, demanded that the Iranian authorities to immediately cease the violent repression of opposition demonstrations, which has convened a new mobilization for Sunday.
Hours before the release of the journalists, the local student news agency ISNA revealed that both had been sentenced to 20 months imprisonment, which was commuted to a fine of 36,000 euros. "Once the court together, the two defendants have been sentenced to 20 months in prison for a crime against state security.
However, this sentence was commuted for two defendants in a fine of 500 million rials (equivalent to about $ 50,000), "he said. The reporters, who work for the Sunday "Bild am Sonntag" has been more than five months in prison in Tabriz, and were accused of espionage in principle. But months later, after intervening Germanic diplomacy, they were deemed guilty of transgressing the laws of entry into the country, which entered with tourist visas and without accreditation as journalists.
The German Foreign Ministry had to exert further force Tehran to allow two families, the mother of the photographer and the reporter's sister, could visit last Christmas. A month earlier, both had appeared for the first and only time on state television in a kind of confession in which a voice in farsi translated his words and claimed they had been deceived by the opposition Iranian Mina Ahadi, founder and director of the Committee International against Stoning, group campaigning to free the woman.
The pulse took a new dimension when earlier this 2011, Ashtiani own Iranian media announced that he planned to take action against two German journalists for trying to interview his son and called on foreign media to forget about your process. The woman, an ethnic Azeri and 43 years old, he suggested, even the action of foreigners rather than harm it did, in a statement that the Iranian opposition abroad considered "forced." Ashtiani's case rose to the international arena in the summer of 2010, after his first attorney alleged that he was accused of adultery and was to be sentenced to death by stoning.
The news triggered a wave of global solidarity, which has forced the Iranian regime to keep suspended the sentence and has uncovered the discrepancies within the national leadership. In September, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and said the process is ongoing and that the sentence was not final.
Weeks later, the judiciary insisted, however, was shown the participation of women in the murder of her husband, and therefore would be hanged and that crime prevailed over that of adultery.
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