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Iran's president pushes for harsher laws on honor killings

| May 27, 2020 6:27 AM

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president urged his Cabinet on Wednesday to speed up harsher laws in so-called honor killings, after a particularly disturbing slaying of a 14-year-old girl by her father shocked the nation.

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