Iran: pattern

Yesterday and today, medium strenght quakes jolted Hormuzgan province in South-Iran. The first was 5,2 Richter-scale, the others were 4,2 Richter-scale.
So far no damage reports are known.



Brigadier General Eskandar Momeni told IRNA that in the last 24 hrs over a ton of drugs were seized in Tehran, Yazd en Khorasan Razavi province.
67 drugstraffickers are arrested and 21 guns and 76,000 liters of fuel were also confiscated.
Not only Iran is a mayor drug transitroute between Afghanistan and Pakistan, also there are at least two mln drug addicts in the country.

According to the statistics of the Health Ministry, 80 percent of Iranians suffer from malnutrition. Seyyed Ziaeddin Mazhari, the head of Iran’s Food and Nutrition Institute told this at a conference named “Health and Its Role in Workforce Productivity“.
He also told IRNA that 30% of Iranians are suffering from anemia.
He said that healthy food and nutrition are major human needs. Nevertheless, people are only thinking of satisfying their hunger and not meeting the needs of their body.
500 babies are born annually with neural disorders, 50 percent of which can be prevented by feeding nutrients.
Elaborating on the consequences of malnutrition, Mazhari said a child’s physical and mental growth will diminish while the risk of diseases and treatment costs will increase.


Wednesday, Babak Zamanian, spokesman of the Muslim Students Association at Amir Kabir Polytechnic university is arrested, reportedly because he gave interviews to Farsi language radio stations that broadcast outside Iran. In December Amir Kabir university made headline news because of the many protests against president Ahmadinejad by the students.



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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