Iran now says, it is yet to take a final decision on the stoning of a woman convicted of adultery and complicity in her husband's murder, in a case that has sparked an international outcry. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said execution of the sentence had been stayed pending a review by the judiciary. He said such severe sentences were never carried out without exhaustive judicial consideration. Yesterday, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner wrote to European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, calling for a joint warning to Iran by all 27 member states not to carry out the sentence. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, was sentenced to death by stoning after a court found her guilty of adultery and of being an accomplice in her husband's murder.