Iran: in cold weather

Turkey will ask Iran to restore the flow of natural gas to Turkey after it was cut off yesterday.
Iran blames the disruption on cold weather and a cut in Turkmen gas supplies.
Last week the flow from Iran had already fallen to 4-5 million cubic metres a day from an agreed 30 million.


Cold weather and heaviest snowfall in more than a decade has left at least 21 people dead in Iran.
Since Saturday, more then 22 inches of snow has fallen in northern and central Iran.
schools and government offices had to close and all domestic and international flights wer cancelled.
Authorities have urged citizens to reduce their high consumption of gas and to cancel unnecessary travel.
Snow has fallen in Kerman province, in western areas of the Lut Desert. The elders of a village say they have never seen nor heard of snow in that region.
Lut Desert is famed for having very harsh climatic conditions. Temperature can rise as high as 71 Celsius.
The snowfall would continue in the coming days.
Photo Press-tv



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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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