No more than 20 days after videos depicting the cruel killing of stray dogs in Shiraz emerged, an attorney in the southern city says two entities have pressed charges against those involved. The provincial Environment Department and the Society for the Protection of Animal Rights have pressed charges against the dog-killers, the attorney said. By ...

Iranians held protests in major cities across the country after a gruesome video surfaced online of the killing of stray dogs in an industrial park in Shiraz. The three-minute grainy video with audio shows men in masks injecting a number of dogs with a syringe. Some claimed the dogs were injected with acid or poison. None of the men were wearing government ...