Iran: lingering

Iran is about to send 1 million Afghans home.
PressTV reported that the refugees have already been told to get themselves and their possessions ready to move out in the near future.

Interior Minister Mostafa Purmohammadi said that repatriation had been stalled by winter weather and budget limitations.
Every "illegal" Afghan immigrant gets about $100 for their trip home, a policy that will cost Iran about $21.6 million.


The Iranian authorities try to discover what has happened to Robert Levinson.
The American vanished some weeks ago on the island Kish.
IRNA reported that Hossein Zolfaqari, deputy head of the Islamic Republic Law Enforcement Forces, said on Saturday he had "no information about the disappearance of the American citizen".



The newspaper Kayhan reported on Sunday that according to unverified information, 10 people have died after drinking homemade alcohol in Qom.
On April 2, a large quantity of bootlegged alcohol was distributed in the city and a number of drinkers were hospitalised.

In Iran the production and distribution of alcohol is forbidden,
Only recognised Christian minorities in Iran are allowed to produce and consume alcohol, discreetly and behind closed doors.
Production, sale or consumption of alcohol are otherwise punishable by jail or the lash, although this has not stopped significant smuggling from neighbouring countries.
46,000 cans of beer had been seized and destroyed in the capital in recent months.




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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