Iran: affection

In Tehran a crackdown is started on pet dogs. Police detains dogs and sends them to a 'dog detentioncenter'.
Since the creation of the Islamic republic in Iran in 1979, the acceptability of dog ownership has been debated by the authorities.
The Iranian authorities say that according to Islam, dogs are considered to be dirty animals, and people who own dogs are viewed as being under Western influence.
Some conservative clerics have denounced dog ownership as "morally depraved" and say it should be banned.
In the past, dog owners have received warnings or were forced to pay fines for
having a pet dog, despite this dog ownership has increased over the years, especially among young people in Tehran.
This crackdown on dogs follows a recent order by the head of Tehran's security forces, Ahmad Reza Radan, who said it is against the law for dogs to walk in public.
The head of Iran's Society to Defend the Rights of Animals says there are no passages in the Koran about dogs being dirty.
Activists say that officially no legal prohibition exists in Iran against keeping dogs as pets.


President Ahmadinejad has accepted the request of Professor Richard Nelson Frye, American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, to be buried on the bank of the river Zayandeh-rud in Isfahan.
Ahmadinejad instructed Iran’s Interior Minister, Mostafa Purmohammadi to provide the prerequisites for compliance with Frye’s request.
The professor is a wellknown Iranologist, an American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian studies and a Professor Emeritus of Iranian studies at Harvard University. He speaks fluent Persian, Arabic, Turkish, German, Russian and French and has traveled to Iran many times.
Frye’s affection for Iran and the Iranian people grew during his scholarly interest in the region which has spanned more than sixty years.
He wants wants to be buried near Arthur Pope, his mentor, predecessor and former director of the Asia Institute in Shiraz.
A mausoleum was built in memory of Pope on the bank of the Zayandeh-Rud River in Isfahan.
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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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