The Netherlands has frozen contacts with Iran after Tehran hanged an Iranian-Dutch woman for drug smuggling. Tehran prosecutor's office said, a drug trafficker named Zahra Bahrami was hanged early yesterday after she was convicted of selling and possessing drugs. Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal called it an act committed by a barbarous regime. A Dutch foreign office spokesman said, the Netherlands has decided to freeze all contacts with Iran after obtaining confirmation of Bahrami's execution from Iran's ambassador to the Netherlands Kazem Gharib Abadi. Bahrami, a 46-year-old Iranian-born naturalised Dutch citizen, was reportedly arrested in December 2009 after joining a protest against the government while visiting relatives in the Islamic republic. The prosecutor's office however confirmed that Bahrami had used her Dutch connections to bring narcotics into Iran. It said, the convict was a member of an international drug gang.