Iran: clashes

Iranian statetelevision reported that police killed 12 rebels during clashes in Sistan-e-Baluchestan province.
A police officer told that the group had planned bomb attacks in Iranshahr.
IRNA reported that 4 man got killed, 10 arrested, and 150 pounds of explosives were confiscated.





ISNA reported that Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam, commander of the Islamic Republic of Irans Police (IRIP) told that smart cards will be issued for addicts in Iran.
He said that addicts try to conceal their identity, therefore smart cards, which contain the addicts fingerprints, will help police to identify them.
He said also that the use of traditional drugs has reduced and addicts are turning toward synthetic drugs such as crack, crystal and ecstasy pills.
The number of drug addicts treated by methadone in Iran has increased by 30% during the first nine months of the Iranian year.


Several clerics sitting as MPs in the Iranian parliament have criticised the Tehran police chief for showing excessive zeal by ordering a crackdown on women's high boots.
Clerical MP Seyed Hadi Tabatabai told the newspaper Etemad that no officials have the right to mix religion with emotions and issue decrees and implement them on behalf of clerics. Such behaviour tarnishes Islam.
The chief of Tehran's police had described women wearing such fashions as an example of "Tabarroj", an Islamic term which means revealing one's beauty and bodily contours to unrelated men.
Cleric MP Mohammad Taghi Rahbar said that a Muslim woman wearing high boots with a coat and other coverings does not contradict Islam.



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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