The director of a real estate agency in Iran has been arrested for “undermining moral values” after selling an apartment to a dog, police announced on Sunday (August 20th). Police have launched an investigation “following the release of a video showing the signing of the sale of an apartment to a dog by a real estate agency in western Tehran”, police said in a reported statement. by the local news agency Isna.
This video, which quickly went viral on social networks, shows a couple declaring to sell an apartment to their dog Chester, a shih tzu, for lack of an heir. According to these images, the small white dog, installed on the desk of the real estate agent, signs the contract with the help of the woman by affixing the imprint of its paw on the document.
“On Saturday morning, the head of the agency was arrested by the police and his office was closed by order of the judicial authority,” said Tehran Deputy Prosecutor General Reza Tabar as quoted by Mizan Online. communication organ of justice.
“The act committed by this real estate agency has no legal basis,” he added, accusing the boss of “wanting to undermine the moral values ??of society.” As in many Muslim countries, the dog is considered unclean in Iran but the law does not prohibit owning one. More and more Iranians from the middle and upper classes own pets, especially dogs and cats.
