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...size, Tehran offers exemplary primary health care and sanitation. The vaccination rate stands at 100%, there is close to universal access to clean water, and 80% of pregnant women are examined three times during their pregnancy. "That is why, despite the occurrence of polio in neighboring countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and frequent traffic between our countries, there hasn't been a single case of polio in Iran over the last eight years," says Dr. Hossein Malek-Afzali, the main founder of the program who won the U.N. Population Award...
...Aiden Khaled Qadir at a press conference. Qadir, who is overseeing election security efforts, sounded confident about the preparations. "We have more than we need of numbers of forces. We also have forces to protect the candidates, the voters, the centers." (Read "How Soon Is Too Soon to Leave Iraq...
Thousands of Iraqi soldiers and police officers will be on the streets on Saturday as up to 15 million registered voters head to the polls, mostly on foot, to cast ballots in what will decide a new makeup for 14 of Iraq's 18 provincial councils. Iraqi and U.S. officials have repeatedly warned that insurgents and militia elements may stage attacks on election day. With the vehicle ban, suicide bombers on foot and rocket or mortar fire pose the biggest threats. But so far there has been little sign that Iraq's militants are organizing a bloody show of force...
...sure, a number of militant rejectionists remain at large in Iraq. On Tuesday, attackers torched a polling station near the city of Fallujah in Anbar province. And sporadic bombings persist in Baghdad, Mosul and Diyala province. But the fear of carnage that has surrounded past elections and mass public gatherings like the regular Shi'ite pilgrimages is low.(See TIME's photo-essay "Showdown in Fallujah...
...TIME's photo-essay "Life Returns to Iraq's Streets...