he introduced shirin to alcohol when she was a child. shirin: my father fermented his own wine when i was a child. then when i was six, he gave me a glass of wine for the first time. i became dizzy, and it was very strange. and then i started dancing. so it somehow clicked for me at the time, and that's when my addiction began. reporter: it was easy for shirin to get hold of drugs as an adult, even though, along with alcohol, they are forbidden in this theocrac c state. shirin: you can get anything anywhere, drugs and alcohol. our young people start with drinking, and then come the drugs. it's very easy to get drugs and alcohol. there are a lot of drug dealers, especially in the southern part of tehran, but also in the centre. reporter: the government ignored the problem for decades. and the result? it has never been easier to get hold of addictive substances, and the number of addicts is higher than ever. the figures are so alarming that a former police chief felt compelled to write an open letter, dedemanding thatat the problefinanally

with the cher wayne con condom marks first female a mom talking about the future of islam in europe shirin in morocco at the council of islamic scholars is allowing women to officiate marriages in saudi arabia while men have been allowed to drive so there are steps forward in more traditional islamic countries but do you understand that from a western point of view i mean this isn't really impressive this is a very basic sayings that shouldn't have been banned in the first place. yes i agree with you totally. in the marry a mosque we have constructed a new marriage islamic marriage contract that gives women muslim women the right to divorce actually due today in the world muslim women do not have the basic right to divorce it's the right of the husband so and actually it's an islamic principle the right to divorce so we have contracted a new marriage contract giving women the basic islamic right to divorce and if palagi news for bitten in our contract is mental or physical violence occur the marriage is a no and the woman has the right over the children in case of a divorce we also conduct

shirin rajaee talked to a witness to the violence. shaken by what she saw.. one witness who didn't wish to be i phone... she says she was driving to work early sunday morning when she noticed traffic was stopped on i-5. 00:15 i look over to my right and theres a body in the middle lane, at that point i panicked and was trying to protect the body with my car, so other vehicles back of me wouldn't run him overit was just before 4am when two cars crashed on the northbound lanes of i-5... and according to chp both drivers stopped near del paso road and began to fightthat blunt object according to the witness was a bat--she says while one of the drivers was on the ground.. the other was using a bat to hit car windows 00:33 he was hitting windows that were driving by him, and he started to walk by 00:47 he started walking to my no choice to drive off because it was coming at me with a batsay that one of the men was killed in the fight due to blunt trauma the second driver was apparently struck and killed by a motorist. (pam) the investigation resulted in an hours-