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Another fatwah is issued on journalist Rafiq Tagi who wrote an article in newspaper Senet, which enraged azeri moslims. After Rafiq Tagi was sentenced to two months jail and a cleric offered his house to the person who kills Rafiq Tagi, another ayatollah, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Fazel Lankarani has set a fatwah for his death.
This ayatollah is a man with many followers. Iran media wrote that Grand Ayatollah Lankarani's followers inside the republic of Azerbaijan wrote to him asking for advice about what they called "the apostate writer".
They accuse Azeri writer of portraying Christianity as superior to Islam and Europe as superior to the Middle East.
They allege that he has ridiculed all the sanctities of Islam and done it knowingly, fully aware of the consequences of his action.





The editor Saeedpour of weekly Sepas has been arrested for printing "offensive material" about one of Iran's ethnic minority, the Lors.
According to ISNA, the weekly Sepas that was being published in the western province of Lorestan angered the ethnic minority by an "insulting question in a word puzzle."


Desertification threathens nearly 100 mln hectares of Iran’s arable lands.
Hossein Abdinejad of the Forest and Range Organization,told that five mln hectares of the lands in the country are plagued with physical and chemical harms that are mainly caused by human interference.
Also, 75 mln hectares of the fertile lands and 20 mln hectares of the native soil across the country are endangered by water and wind erosion.
If desertification continues to spread, the process will not only undermine the economy but also trigger a huge migration to the cities.
The rates of soil loss and desertification throughout the world is alarming, around 30% of the lands in the world face desertification.


Four bombs exploded minutes apart on a railway line linking Pakistan with neighboring Iran,There were no casualties.
The attack happened Tuesday, in Naushki, a town 200 km west of Quetta,Pakistan.
Similar attacks in the past have been blamed by police on ethnic-Baluch tribesmen.





In Iran deathpenalty is in use. Also for child offenders.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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