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Iran wants to ration gasoline for the next Iranian year beginning March 21 .
Interior Minister Mustafa Pour-Mohammadi says that the government insists on rationing the gasoline to keep prices stable and prevent economic problems

Gasoline is sold at $0.09 per liter in Iran.
People see cheap fuel as a right, but economists believe cheap gasoline encourages excessive consumption and a lucrative trade in contraband fuel to Iran's neighbors.
Iran, though an oil-rich country, imports about 40 per cent of the 70 million liters of gasoline it uses each day because of insufficient refining capacity.



Zoroastrians in Yazd cancelled their Sadeh Feast this year as a token of respect for Imam Hussein (AS).
Zoroastrians celebrate January 30 each year to mark creation of fire during the reign of Houshang, a king of the Kianian Dynasty.
The feast dates back to eight to ten thousand years ago.
It pertains to the time when the Aryans had not yet migrated to the Iranian Plateau.

This year it coincides with Ashura (tenth day of the lunar month Muharram when the third Shiite Imam, Imam Hussein (AS) and his 72 loyal companions were killed in the plains of Karbala.
This is for the first time that the religious festival is being cancelled.
Some 35,000 Zoroastrians live in Iran, 6,000 of whom are in Yazd province.


In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

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