Iran: focus

Nearly 400,000 college graduates are jobless in Iran.
Morteza Parhizgar, head of University Graduates Employment Assistances Organization, told ISNA that although the average official unemployment rate in Iran is 12%, the unofficial jobless rate among university graduates has reached as high as 19%.



At the excavations in Bolaghi Gorge, Fars province, French and Iranian archeologists discovered more than five pair of eyes for statues dating back to the Achaemenid era (550-330 BC).
It is still unclear how and where the eyes, all made from different material, were used at the statues. The archeologists hope to clarify whether these eyes were implemented in stone statues, wooden statues or reliefs, before the official end of the excavations(March 21).
Bolaghi Gorge is situated in the area which will be flooded by the Sivand Dam.
hundreds of historical relics unearthed so far will be destroyed.



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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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