
Ali Alqasimehr, the general prosecutor of city of Shiraz, said "the saboteurs of telephone and power lines will immediately be arrested and punished," the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Tuesday (January 8, 2013).
"The procedure to bring to justice those involved in stealing the electrical cables in its entirety will be followed by the general prosecutors office of Shiraz," the report added.
Alqasimehr said the punishment for Moharebeh could include execution, amputation of a leg or arm, and life imprisonment.
Recently the state-run news media have been reporting on numerous cases of theft of power cables of electric networks in the cities. The poverty has been reported as the main cause of the thefts.
By NCR-Iran
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