Iran: recognize

The Iranian police has over the past five months, as part of a campaign against immorality, seized hundreds of alcoholsmugglers.
Newsagency Fars reported that 53 groups of alcohol traffickers have been dismantled and 435 people are arrested.
943.000 bottles of alcohol were seized.
Alcohol is forbidden in Iran. Only recognized christian minorities, like for instance Armenians are allowed to produce and consume alcohol discretely.



Since April, Iran broadcasts a television series about a young Iranian diplomate, situated in Paris 1940, who with forged passports helps Jews escape from the Holocaust.The name of the series is "Zero Degree Turn". The series is, though fictional, based on a true story of diplomats in the Iranian Embassy in Paris in the 1940s who gave out about 500 Iranian passports for Jews to use to escape.
Also because of the love story woven in the series, it is a great success.
About 25,000 Jews live in Iran, the largest Jewish community in the Middle East after Israel. They have one representative in parliament.
For the first time, many actresses appear without the state-mandated Islamic dress code. The producers wanted to realistically portray 1940s Paris, and thus avoided the headscarves and head-to-foot robes that all women must normally wear on Iranian TV.
The series has won support even from hardliners.
The series could not have aired without being condoned by Iran's clerical leadership. The state broadcaster is under the control of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khomenei, who has final say in all matters inside Iran.
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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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