Police Shoot Seven in Bam Unrest
•At least seven were wounded when police opened fire on Bam earthquake survivors demonstrating against their living conditions and the slow relief work two months after the earthquake, Stockholm daily Dagens Nyheter writes in a dispatch by its reporter in Iran Per Jonsson. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) and other official institutions appropriated much of the aid sent by the UN, the International Red Cross and more than 20 other international organs, it said. (Elaheh Ravanshad, Stockholm)
•Of the $12 million foreign aid, the Iranian society of the Red Crescent has received only $2 million; it is not clear where the other $10 million have gone, head of the Iranian Red Crescent society Ali Nourbala said today. Nobody had the right to appropriate the earthquake relief aid, but many organizations, including the foreign ministry and economy and finance ministry did so, and some of the donated goods were appropriated by other organs and institutions. (Jamshid Chalangi)
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