Iran: confluence

In Mazandaran province, northern Iran, are two men publicly hanged on Thursday.
Daily Etemad Melli wrote that the men were convicted of raping and killing two girls aged seven and eight.



Thursday, an earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale has jolted the city of Borazjan in Iran's southern province of Boushehr.
The quake has reportedly caused no casualties or property damage.
Almost every day Iran has at least a minor earthquake.
Seismologists say this is because Iran is at the confluence of three of the tectonic plates, and is literally being squeezed by them.


In spite of, or maybe thanks to the Islamic Dresscode, the Iranian man and woman spend a lot of money at cosmetic surgery, f.i. nose-jobs.
Many Iranians have a prominent nose and reducing this size is fairly common.
Everywhere in Tehran young women, as well as some men, with post-surgery gauze on their faces as "proof" of the surgery, are seen.
A nose-job costs between $1,600 and $2,200.


On the site of Turkish Weekly is an article by Aamir Latif, Islam Online correspondent, about womens position in Iran.
In western media the steretype of oppressed women in a man-dominated society is mostly seen. A closer look told him thats not quite right.
Although the position of Iranian women has bettered for the last two decades, there is still a lot that can be done. The women he spoke to, seemed fairly satisfied, but asked him not to ask anything more or they "would be in trouble".


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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