Police arrested 19 people in a raid on a brothel in the northern city of Rasht, the conservative Afarinesh newspaper reported Tuesday. The owners, a married couple, were among those detained in the raid which followed a surveillance operation in the city, capital of the Caspian Sea province of Gilan, the paper said. Iran's mounting economic woes have led to an explosion of street prostitution in recent years, despite the use of the whip and other strict punishments by the Islamic regime over the past two decades.
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