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Traffic Infractions in Iran - 74 Lashes

by Steve
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The National Council of Resistance of Iran - Foreign Affairs Committee, reports today that Iran will be cracking down heavily on drivers and motorcyclists who violate traffic laws, with 74 lashes of a whip in public.

Iran has long used public lashings as a punishment for traffic offenses, but this is the first time they've actually announced it as official.

Public lashing in Iran
Brig. Gen. Ahman Reza Radan, of the greater Tehran's State Security Force, issued a statement on television that promising "more suppressive measures" for the coming year compared to previous years for traffic infractions...

"You must have witnessed the [unacceptable] behavior of some motorcyclists on the streets and the concerns of car drivers. One other area that we will take into consideration, besides the public security, would be social discipline."
Read the full article here...
http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5127/1/

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3 Comments:

  • The moron who tried to kill me yesterday could do with some of this. I guess he'd say he didn't see me, but when I commute I wear a high viz jacket.

    By Anonymous Malvino, at 4/24/2008 12:12:00 AM  

  • this is bullshit this lashes is not for traffic he do some thing so he get
    lashes
    i m not aggrid with lashes but
    do not tell pepole bullshit

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7/26/2008 05:21:00 AM  

  • this is bullshit this lashes is not for traffic he do some thing so he get
    lashes
    i m not aggrid with lashes but
    do not tell pepole bullshit

    By Anonymous MO, at 7/26/2008 05:22:00 AM  

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