Iran: change in the desert
Changing times ... women pass conservative candidates' campaign posters during the 2004 elections in Kerman, Iran. Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/Getty/ Manoeuvring the car along the precipitous mountain passes north of , Tahereh asks: "Are you ready to be kidnapped?" Beyond the date palm plantations of Shahdad, abandoned chicken farms, police checkpoints and commemorations to martyrs, was the vast erg of the Dasht-e Lut desert, home to desert farmers and gangs smuggling Afghani opium. Tahereh and her brother Arash were our guides, whom we'd met ...
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