Iran's speaker of parliament, Medhi Karubi, has promised that the journalist and scientist Hashem Aghajari, who was recently sentenced to death, will be freed from jail. The speaker of parliament expressed his disgust at the verdict and emphasised that Mr Aghajari will be able to return to his family in the near future. It is believed that Mr Karubi was referring to a bill passed on Sunday morning by the Iranian parliament, giving President Mohammad Khatami the power to suspend court rulings. In Iran there is a power struggle between parliament, which has a reformist majority, and the judiciary, that...