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Tehran, Jan 30 (IANS) The Iranian government has hanged dozens of drug traffickers in the first month of 2011 and vowed to pursue its anti-drug trafficking campaign. The latest one to be hanged was an Iranian-Dutch woman.

On Saturday, Iran hanged the Iranian-Dutch woman identified as Zahra Bahrami for smuggling drugs into Iran, keeping and selling them in the country.
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Earlier, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that Iran would not surrender to the Western propaganda over Bahrami's case, adding that her case involved drug smuggling.

'The western countries should welcome Iran's campaign against drug smuggling and even cooperate with Iran in this regard,' Mehmanparast was quoted as saying by IRNA.
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Bahrami's hanging followed a string of executions of drug traffickers in the Islamic republic earlier in the month.

On Jan 19, Iran hanged 10 men in the city of Karaj, 45 km west of Tehran, for supplying and distributing different kinds of drugs.

On Jan 13, Iran hanged five drug traffickers in the western city of Khorramabad, the capital city of Lorestan province, for supplying and distributing drugs, after it had hanged seven drug traffickers in Tehran a day earlier for keeping and distributing heroin, hashish and opium.

On Jan 3, Iran hanged seven unidentified drug traffickers in the central prison of the western Kermanshah city who were convicted of producing and distributing heroin and crack, Kermanshah prosecutor Mojtaba Maleki was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars news agency.

Two days earlier, Iran also reported the execution of eight drug smugglers in the central city of Qom.
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Doesn't surprise me, actually. I've come to expect this kind of thing from Iran.
 
the u.s. achieves the same goals, with the same motives, with less P.R. repercussions. the drug war is tearing society apart.
 
From the perspective of the U.S. - the citizen's function is to serve the state and they make laws according to this doctrine.

In Iran it has more to do with Mohammed saying it is bad to do drugs because Allah told him so blah blah blah barf.
 
weird i thought hash use was semi-acceptable in middle-eastern countries

i really cant comprehend hangings in this day and age
 
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