Where are mutant rats being shot?

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Iran’s capital Tehran is using snipers to take out rats that have reached gigantic proportions. Some dead ones are weighing as high as four kilos.

The rodents are even starting to “look different”.
The Huffington Post quoted a report by The International Business Times which carried a statement by Tehran city council environment adviser Ismail Kahram as saying the rats, “seem to have had a genetic mutation, probably as a result of radiations and the chemicals used on them.”
“They are now bigger and look different. These are changes that normally take millions of years of evolution. They have jumped from 60 grams to five kilos, and cats are now smaller than them,” Kahram was quoted as saying.
Tehran officials have now armed military snipers with infra-red scopes to take out the gigantic troublemakers. Reports estimate at least 2,205 rats have been killed so far, from a population of over 20 million. That’s more than the human population of entire cities.
But unfortunately for the country, world media is already poking fun at Iran’s efforts to curb the menace.
The Times of London carried a report saying, after all, “Tehran had much experience in ‘extermination’”.