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Iran hangs dozens of drug peddlers

Iran hangs dozens of drug peddlers: "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.

A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of IranOn Saturday, Iran hanged the Iranian-Dutch woman identified as Zahra Bahrami for smuggling drugs into Iran, keeping and selling them in the country.

Bahrami was charged with 'keeping and selling drugs,' Xinhua quoted the Tehran prosecutor's office as saying Sunday.

'The convicted woman was a member of an international gang engaged in drug transits,' said the prosecutor, adding she smuggled drugs twice into Iran and distributed cocaine inside the country via Dutch connections, said the judiciary official."

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