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Cartoon: Rice or Excecution
Caption translation:
"Excuse me; is this the line for rice or execution?"
Links;
Rice shortage lines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0uZb9-o10
Public excecution (warning, graphic pictures): >>>
Cartoon: Breathing in the Gas Chamber
Tehran Pollution Crisis 2012: Thousands Dead In Iran's Capital As Government Warns To Stay Indoors
Hassan Aqajani, an adviser to Iran's health minister announced Sunday that 4,460 people have died from air pollution in Tehran in a one-year period since March 2011, AFP reports. The announcement came just as a five-day closure of government offices, schools, and banks because of air pollution came to an end -- the second such shutdown in a month. >>>
Cartoon: Cleaning Air Pollution
Iran
Air Pollution Triggers Tehran Shutdown
Officials in Tehran have ordered schools, universities, government offices, and other institutions to close on January 5 because of high air pollution in the Iranian capital.
Cartoon: Before and After Being Kicked Out
Iranian Leader Fires Woman From Cabinet
’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Thursday dismissed his health minister, Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi, the only woman to serve in the cabinet since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, after she publicly criticized the government’s response to acute shortages of medicine imports, an indirect consequence of the Western sanctions imposed on the country. >>>
Cartoon: Negotiation in Hell
Javad Larijani, chairman of the Judiciary Committee for Human Rights, said: "If the interest of the Islamic Republic of Iran requires it we will negotiate with the Americans and even in the depths of hell with anyone else."

