Iran: moralize

Adnkronos reports that according to the site Farda News, Tehran's police chief, Reza Zarei, has been arrested after he was found nude in a local brothel with six naked prostitutes.
Adnkronos says Farda News is a website said to be close to the mayor of Tehran and former chief of the police forces.
According to the site Zarei resignated from his post as police chief.
The news of his arrest however was not reported by any official Iranian news agency.
According to a Iranian website Gooya, the order to raid the brothel was given directly by the judiciary chief Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi.


The Dutch Council of State has rejected the appeal of homosexual Iranian Mehdi Kazemi to grant him asylum.He is at risk being extradited to England.
Dutch parliamentarian Boris van der Ham asked parliamentary questions to junior minister Albayrak.
When sent back to England, Kazemi is in danger being deported to Iran.
Unlike the Netherlands there is no moratorium on sending homosexuals back to Iran, in England.


Former president Khatami Tuesday urged Iranians to vote en masse in this week's parliamentary elections despite the disqualification of reformist candidates.
He said that the vote is the ultimate criteria and those who do not believe in the vote are not the friends of the people.
"People want freedom, independence and the Islamic republic", he said.
The main reformist coalition has said its chances of taking control of the parliament from the conservatives have been wrecked as it can only compete for less than half the seats in the chamber.
The granddaughter of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Zahra Eshraghi, says that the only way to save the country is for Khatami to run next year in presidential elections.
She is married to a younger brother of Khatami, Mohammad Reza, himself a top reformist leader.
The Supreme Leader Khamenei today urged Iranians to avoid voting for candidates who are deemed too close to the Western enemies of the Islamic republic.
His comments are a possible attack ahead of Friday's vote on reformist politicians.


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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