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Smugglers in Kurdistan
April 29, 2017 , IRANKurdish men carry their load of goods to be smuggled into Iran in the border of Iran and Iraq. Due to the lack of job opportunities in this area, most of the people are busy in smuggling goods across the Iraq borders. This area is full of land mines left from Iran-Iraq war and besides life-threatening risks, Border Guard Commands strongly fight with them. They usually earn about 40 dollars in each of their commutes (a 6-hour walking route). There is a famous sentence among them, “Border or Center” which means if they don’t smuggle, they have to go the capital city and doing low-ranking jobs far away from their hometown. Over 154 smugglers were killed or injured in various incidents in 2016.
Photo: Abed Jalilpouran / IRAN IMAGES
