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2006 Thursday 16 November

Every two hours another Iranian dies of drug addiction

According to a shocking statistics every two hours another Iranian dies of drug addiction.

The regime-run news agency Fars quoting an official from the revolutionary battalion known as the campaign against drugs wrote: "Every two hours one person dies, that’s 11 people a day who die of addiction. In 1384*, 4320 people lost their lives to drug addiction."

Alavian, an official at the minister of health of the Islamic regime said: "Annually the percentage of drug addicts increases by 8%.”

* The Iranian calendar (also known as the Jalaali Calendar) is a solar calendar currently used in Iran and Afghanistan. It is observation-based, rather than rule-based, beginning each year on the vernal equinox as precisely determined by astronomical observations from Tehran. The Iranian calendar was legally adopted by the Persian parliament on March 31st, 1925, specifying the adaptation of the calendar from its Zoroastrian origins to the numbering of the year which is representative of year the of Mohammad's migration from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE; the Zoroastrian origins of this is a celebration of the first day of spring, that the year is the "true solar" year "as it has been", and specifying the month names and the number of days in each month. On March 21st the year 1384 will officially end and 1385 will begin.


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