Iran: (il)legal

Iranian Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ezhehee Sunday said that there is no indication of the presence or the arrest of Robert Levinson, the American who dissappeared on Kish island last month.

He denied that the missing American was arrested to trade against former Minister Askari, who disappered in Turkey, a couple of months ago.



Since Saturday the crackdown on women whose dress is deemed inappropriate to adhere to Islamic dress rules, are, according to Mehdi Ahmadi head of information at Tehran city's police force,
1,347 women warned.
There were 170 arrests. Of these, 58 were released after making a written commitment and rectifying their appearance. The cases of the rest, who already had a record, were handed over to the judiciary.
Twenty shops selling inappropriate clothing were also closed down.
The duration depends on when society feels that there is no more need for such action, he said.




Illegal diggers plundered the Sassanid cemetery which is located in the vicinity of the reservoir of the Salman-e-Farsi dam.
According to Hassan Fazeli Nashli, director of Archeology Research Center, illegal diggers rushed directly after the news about the temporarily stop on the Salman-e-Farsi dam got released, to the cemetary and looted it, and a number of burial gifts such as clay vessels and small earthen statuettes were destroyed.
The flooding of the dam has been stopped and archeological excavations in a Sassanian city located in the vicinity of dam’s reservoir have been started.
Dam officials announced that they have stopped the inundation in order to undertake some technical tests on the dam.
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