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Iranian cleric says bad drive a sin as 700 die in the new year.
Issued by AFP 04/04/2017 Modified 04/04/2017 11 20th.
Iran has a poor record of road safety with more than 500,000 deaths in the last 20 years AFP file.
Some 700 people were killed during the Persian new year on the roads in Iran, which are among the deadliest in the world despite the Islamic leaders say bad drive a sin.
The two weeks break for Nowruz, which ended the weekend actually saw an improvement of 12 percent over the number of deaths last year, the police chief Taghi Mehri said Tuesday.
But the horrible loss of life - with more than half a million killed in the last two decades - has led religious leaders to intervene.
The violation of traffic laws is sin, and following these rules is a religious duty, said the grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi last week.
He repeated a statement he made in 2014, when he said Driving tired and sleepy, illegally passing other cars and traffic lights are haram forbidden.
Iran is almost alone among the middle-income countries regarding the scope of its road deaths.
The World Health Organization, place it in the top 10 along with the very poor African countries such as Libya, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic where drivers have to deal with terrible roads and armed militants.
The only other middle-income countries in the top 10 is Thailand, although three quarters of road deaths in this country involve motorcycles that are much less common in Iran.
The reasons are not clear, although the very aggressive nature of the Iranian leadership and the poor quality of locally manufactured cars are clearly factors.
The police are fighting a desperate battle to keep them in line conductors, with impound cars and agents 32,000 20,000 motorcycles for violations in the first three days of Nowruz alone.
Unfortunately, each agency 71 minutes, someone dies on the roads due to accidents in the country, deputy police chief Eskandar Momeni said, quoted by Tasnim news.
The figure last year was one in every 60 minutes, there was an improvement.
But be aware that even one death on the roads is shocking and we should all try to stop it.
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