Bureaucracy is the name of the game in Iran, and is negatively affecting the situation of the 10 local Jews still imprisoned there. "No letter of request for pardon has been filed by the 10 Iranian Jews, who have been convicted of spying for the Zionist regime," IRNA reported this week, citing the country's judiciary spokesman, Hossein Mir Mohammad Sadeqi. "There is a certain procedure requiring the request for pardon, and it should be initially referred to the concerned judge," he said in an interview with the English-language daily 'Tehran Times' on Wednesday. "The case then, will be reviewed by a judicial commission and if approved, it will be sent to the Judiciary Head Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, who will in turn study the case and then finally submit it to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei," the paper reports.