IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE IRAN: RELIGIOUS SUPERSTITION AND THE SUFFERING OF INNOCENTS

Turns of the events in Iran are difficult to understand, and it's very hard to read what is going on there.

From Michele Brown article, International Animal Rescue Foundation

IRAN: DOG’S BRUTALISED AND BURIED ALIVE

Stray dogs are shot to death in residential streets by city workers, while others are buried alive after being thrown into deeply dug grave-pits. Then government worker randomly shoots at helpless dogs, which leave many injured. Howling and whimpering the dogs are buried alive.

In sharp contrast, the Prophet Muhammad commanded: “Every animal or bird that is killed unjustly, the day will conflict with his killer.”

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In 2010 Iran banned all advertisements for pets, pet food and pet products after powerful cleric Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi issued the fatwa and stressed that, in line with the Islamic tradition, dogs are unclean animals. He said dog owners were “blindly imitating the West” and their devotion to animals would result in “evil outcomes”.
Dog owners used to be able to keep their pets safe by regularly paying fines but Tehran police announced police would capture every dog they encountered and kill. The official reason given is said to be religious: Iran’s Islamic law forbids the possession of dogs, considered to be “impure” animals.



At Shahr Rey, a suburb of Tehran, 70-year-old man was caught walking his pet dog on the street and he was arrested, sentenced to four months in jail and given 30 lashes. An Islamic judge charged the man for “disturbing the public order”. 

Dog killings were already under way when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad imported four puppies from Germany. His behavior justifies to the Iranian general public, who were assured that because the puppies were German and they would be trained by Iran dog trainers, it was acceptable for the President to have dogs, but not members of the public. 

Pet dogs being walked on leashes are being ripped from their owners and placed in compounds, the equivalent of dog-jail, where owners are unable to pay and reclaim their dog.



The Prophet of Islam showed kindness toward all animals, including dogs, yet the Iranian government have a vendetta to murder all stray dogs and encourage members of the public to join in their killing spree, by paying dog killers with rewards. The hate spree against dogs has resulted in countless dogs being shot but not killed outright. Injured dogs run and take days, sometimes even longer to die painful, drawn-out deaths.

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Mistreating animals is considered a sin in Islam. Iranian government on-going actions of butchering dogs are no longer a secret and people worldwide are appalled and horrified at the cruelty being perpetrated against companion animals and the Iranian people who defend them.

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Thirty-two members of the Iranian parliament are pushing new bill that proposes:
"Walking and playing with animals such as dogs and monkeys outdoors and in public places are harmful to the health and the peace of other people, especially kids and women, and are against our Islamic culture.
Walking dogs, trading them or keeping them at home will be punishable by 74 lashes or a fine of 1m to 10m Tomans (equivalent of $320 to $3,200)."

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