Iran: more is less

Iran is scheduled to start export of its latest model of home-manufactured Samand Soren sedan to 32 countries.
Fars Newsagency reported that 1,200 Soren sedans are scheduled to export to Azerbaijan, Belarus, Syria, Vietnam, Venezuela and China among other countries, within coming days.
The managing director from Iran-Khodro car manufacturing company also said that the company has planned to manufacture 8,000 Samand Soren sedans in the next five months.
Iran-Khodro has plans to export 600,000 cars with $10 billion worth by 2016.



The latest figures revealed that over 2.99 million Iranians are jobless.
The unemployment rate is higher among women, youth and the educated.
Figures released by Statistics Center suggest that close to 40.5 percent of the population in the working age group (10 years and above) were economically active during spring (March 21-June 21) this year.
The deputy governor of Central Bank of Iran’s Economic Studies Department,said that the target of the Fourth Five-Year Development Plan (2005-2010) is based on which unemployment should reach 8.4 percent by 2009.The unemployment rate stood at 12.1 percent in the first nine months of the year to March 2007.
Some 900,000 new jobs have been created annually by the government since 2005.
The latest figures released by the Statistics Center indicated that unemployment rate, for the first time in a decade, reached single-digit, 9.9%


The parliament has scheduled one trillion rials for maintaining security along Iran’s borders.
Mehrnews newsagency reported that police commander Brigadier General Hossein Zolfaqari, told reporters in Zanjan that 10 minor border disputes between the border guards of Iran and its neighboring countries were resolved last year.
He said that the main purpose of strengthening the border checkpoints is to fight drug trafficking, goods smuggling and the insurgents.
The number of police officers along border areas has increased by 150 percent and the number of radar equipment has also risen by 80 percent.
A total of 238 tons of narcotics was confiscated by police in the first half of the current Iranian year (started March 21)



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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