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VOA Persian: Iran closes 17 businesses accused of violating Ramadan rites


FILE - Iranian women recite verses of the Quran in a mosque at a shrine during Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in Shahr-e-Ray, south of Tehran, on June 12, 2016.
FILE - Iranian women recite verses of the Quran in a mosque at a shrine during Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in Shahr-e-Ray, south of Tehran, on June 12, 2016.

The Iranian judicial authorities shut down 17 businesses in Dorud, Lorestan Province, under the pretext of their “nonobservance of the rites of Ramadan.”

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