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In Khorasan Razavi province are two men hanged to death.
According to ISNA the two unnamed men were sentenced to death for respective rape and murder.



Iranian drivers have refused to unload cargo in Turkmenistan until authorities look into a case of 'police assault' against a colleague truckdriver.
IRNA reported that an Iranian truckdriver was badly beaten by Turkmen police and was transferred to a hospital in Qouchan.
The driver was objecting to the hygienic conditions at the parking area allocated to Iranian drivers.For instance the lack of hygiene facilities such as toilets.
One of the 80 drivers said that Turkmen police try to extort money from Iranian drivers with the help of unsavory women and if the drivers refuse to pay, they beat them up.


An Iranian ayatollah died suddenly of a heart attack during a speech lashing out at insults against the family of Ayatollah Khomeini in the run-up to elections.
The daily Kargozan reported that Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Tavassoli(77), a former head of Khomeini's office, died while delivering the speech to the Expediency Council, of which he was a member.
He had been responding to unprecedented ultra-conservative attacks against Hassan Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini's grandson, who had criticised mass disqualifications in the March election and military interference.


The Iranian Interior Ministry has prepared a new set of ethical guidelines in a bid to regulate election campaigns in the country.
The guidelines have been inspired by the late Imam Khomeini's remarks and those of the Leader of the Islamic Republic and drawn up by a group of experts.
The final copy of them will be handed over to the candidates, media and people.

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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