Iran: basis

Thursday, a man named Ghaffar is been hanged in the prison of the city of Kalaj.
The daily Iran reported that he was accused of drugstrafficking.




After years of silence, former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi spoke of his concern that the increasing poverty is threatening the basis of the Islamic republic.
In a speech he complained that the country was becoming immune to pictures of impoverished minors and statistics that he said showed that 20 percent of Tehran children were homeless.
He noted that Article 43 of Iran's constitution said that it must aim to provide all the basic needs and food to its people.


Rescue teams pulled 13 Iranian construction workers to safety after the men were trapped when a tunnel they were digging near Tabriz, this Sunday collapsed.
The governor general of East Azerbaijan province said that they are all safe and with their families.
Also he said that 13 people had been caught in the collapse, not 25 as reported earlier.
The tunnel is part of a highway being built between the northern city of Tabriz and the capital Tehran.


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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