Tehran: “No, my cat is harmless,” said Iranian animal lover, angry with proposals from ultraconvative parliamentarians to ban pets.
The 25-year-old player, who runs a pet supply shop in the center of Tehran, is stunned.
“Crocodiles can be called dangerous, but how are rabbits, dogs and dangerous cats?” He asked doubts about the bill introduced a month ago.
The proposed law prohibits more people with pets against those who consider the practice of decadents and argue that under Islamic law dogs, such as pigs, are not clean.
According to media reports, 75 parliamentarians, or a quarter of parliamentarians, recently signed a text entitled “Support for the rights of the population in connection with dangerous and dangerous animals”.
In their introduction, the author condemns human practices that live under one roof with pets as “destructive social problems”.
The phenomenon, they said, can “change the life way of Iran and Islam” by “replacing human and family relations with feelings and emotional relationships against animals”.
The bill will forbid “import, raise, breed, buy or sell, transport or walk, and keep in wild, exotic, dangerous and dangerous animal homes”.
It includes animals as “crocodiles, turtles, snakes, lizards, cats, mice, rabbits, dogs and other unclean animals and monkeys”.
Violators will be at risk equivalent to 10 to 30 times, “minimum monthly work wages” around $ 98 or “seizure” of the animal.
The bill has triggered criticism and ridicule among people.
Someone posted a photo of his kitten on Twitter with a message: “I have changed my cat ‘criminal’ name since I heard this proposed law.”