Iran: defuse

Sunday was in Tehran university a bomb discovered and defused .
No group has yet asserted responsibility for the unsuccessful terrorist blast.


ISNA reported that Iran steps up the crackdown against women over slack dress, 'immoral' activity in cafes and seizing illegal satellite receivers.
Reza Zarei, commander of police in Tehran province, said that since the drive began police in his region handed out 113,454 warnings to women for not following Iran's strict Islamic dress rules.
Of these 1,600 cases have been given to the judiciary.
Furthermore 5,700 people -including 1,400 men- have been sent to "guidance classes" on how to behave in society.
The student news agency ISNA and the Kargozaran newspaper quoted Zarei as saying that police had shut down 3,000 coffee shops and billiard halls although the official IRNA news agency said the establishments had merely been given warnings.
As for the (illegal) satellitedishes Zarei said that police had closed down 68 warehouses selling satellite equipment, seized 27,000 receivers and arrested 535 people linked to the underground industry.
Some reformists in Iran have argued that the authorities would be better off combating poverty or traffic rather than moral laxity but conservatives have applauded the police for seeking to restore revolutionary Islamic values.


Labor leader and founding member of the country's teachers union,
Mohammed Khaksar, has been reported missing in Shahrreza, in the province of Isfahan.
According to witnesses, in an announcement issued by the Professional Teachers Union, Khaksar was forced into a car on Friday morning, allegedly by plainclothes police officers.
In a separate incident in Shahrreza, the leader of the local teachers union, Hamid Ramati, was taken from his house by a dozen of armed men, who claimed to be agents from Iran's Ministry of Intelligence.
Ramati's wife said as he was handcuffed and taken away, her husband said he would start a hunger strike to protest his arrest.


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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