The snipers are reportedly
shooting cat-sized rats.
Well, now there are reports that the poison isn't working that well
and that the rat population still outnumbers the Iranian capital's
humans. So, as The Times of London and Abu Dhabi's The National report, sniper squads have been deployed.
The National says:
"Ten
teams of sharpshooters armed with rifles equipped with infra-red sights
have bagged more than 2,000 of the brutish rodents in recent weeks,
city officials told state media. That's a drop in the ocean: Iran's rat
population easily outnumbers the sprawling capital's 12 million
inhabitants. The city council is now boosting the number of sniper
squads to 40, officials said.
" 'It's become a 24/7 war,' a
grim-faced Mohammad Hadi Heydarzadeh, the head of Tehran municipality's
environmental agency, declared on state television last month."
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