Are people hung from cranes in Iran? I ask because thats whats told here and i would like to know if thats true.
Do people sell their children into prostitution in Greece? I ask because there was an article from the western mainstream press posted here which indicated so and would like to know if that's true.
As for "cranes", the short answer is no: criminals sentenced to death (let alone random "people") are not hung from cranes in Iran.
And now to the detailed answer. In Iran like in Japan or the US, capital punishment consists of the death penalty, and it is executed through hanging. Most executions are for drug related offenses (but only a small percentage of drug offenders are in fact executed), followed by murder, rape, armed robbery. So it's not simply any kind of "people" we're talking about here, but serious criminals. Therefore the semantics of the question was anything but objective. Also there's free public debate including in Majles (parliament) as to the death penalty and where and how it should apply, and its practice got less systematic over the years. As a matter of fact, in many western countries significant portions of the public are advocating reinstatement of the death penalty for major criminal offenses.
Now I don't see how it's relevant to polemicize on what shape the gallows take, at the end of the day it makes not that much of a difference... Cranes were resorted to merely in a token number of instances and only during the first couple of years after the 1979 Revolution ie around four decades ago, because early revolutionary phases, whether in "democratic" France (which committed genocide in the Vendée region, home to royalist and Catholic rebels), Cuba or Russia, are always marked by vivid radicalism. The difference is that post-revolutionary purges in Iran were less extensive than in all the other examples mentioned.
Another point is that Iran was then in a state of war, and on top of it was victim of large scale (14.000 martyrs) domestic terrorism from a grouplet, the MKO, whose extreme brutality was comparable to "I"SIS and which was backed by the enemy, namely Saddam's Iraq as well as western intelligence services. So a few individuals, probably on terrorist charges, were subjected to this. But as said, it's been nearly 40 years that this has not taken place in Iran.
I'm sure that in Greece, as in every other country occupied by Germany during WW2, some public lynchings or other shocking forms of killing occurred against Nazi collaborators in the aftermath of the war. Doesn't mean "people are lynched in Greece". For the intellectually honest, context matters.
As for emigration, most are greeks who came from asia minor and then migrated global.
That still begs the question why they preferred not to migrate to their homeland Greece and opted for some far-flung foreign destination instead. And the reply is that material considerations and perceived relative living standards have something to do with it, followed by political reasons (persecution of Greek communists during and after the Greek Civil War).
In the US alone, there are 500.000 residents who were born in Greece. In addition to 670.000 with Greek or Cypriot ancestry, and it's safe to assume that many if not most of these do not originate from Asia Minor. Other estimates put the number of "Greek Americans" at no less than 3 million individuals.
Another 400.000 are living in Australia, with over 90.000 of them born in Greece. Again many if not most of these didn't arrive from Asia Minor. 270.000 in Canada, of which over 60.000 were born in Greece. Over 70.000 in Italy, about 45.000 in Germany and 40.000 in the UK.
So we can safely deduce from these figures that the proportion of Greek emigrants from Greece proper is greater than the corresponding percentage of Iranians. The point still stands therefore.
Holland military is not even top 30. 
