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Iran Focus 
     
     Tehran, Iran, Jan. 02 – A court in Iran
    sentenced a young man to amputation of his hand, flogging, and jail time, a
    state-run daily reported on Monday. 
     
    The unnamed man was charged with repeated burglary, the daily Iran wrote. 
     
    The Tehran
    court sentenced the man to 40 lashes in public and three and a half years
    in prison. It also decreed that one of the hands of the 32-year-old man be
    amputated as retribution for his alleged crimes. 
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