Iran: substitute

In the city of Kazeroun is Monday a man hanged in public.
The man, Abouzar was convicted for murdering his wife two years ago.



Four former Iranian officials, including one who held a key oil ministry position and an ex-customs director, have been jailed for up to five years for taking bribes and embezzlement.
Judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi said that a sales executive of Iran Khodro,who is convicted to eight months in jail and a fine of 100 million rials and a former state bank employee were included, but declined to give their names.
He also said that a former employee of an oil ministry unit for legal affairs involved in contracts was jailed for four years and fined a total of around $700,000 on charges of accepting bribes and commissions.
A former deputy head of a Bank Mellat branch was sentenced to five years imprisonment and fined $47,000.The former customs official was jailed and was fined 230 million rials.
He did not say where the four convicted ex-officials held office.


The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs said Sunday that moving the capital of Iran from Tehran to another province is on the agenda of the Housing Council.
He said this could solve the problem of emigration from small towns to Tehran and to solve the unemployment, housing, social, and cultural problems.
Also seismologists have urged the government to move the capital out of Tehran.
They say that the city, which lies on at least 100 known fault lines, could be hit by a major earthquake.


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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