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Expanding Iran's Biggest Graveyard

October 18, 2021
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Expanding Iran's Biggest Graveyard
Expanding Iran's Biggest Graveyard
Expanding Iran's Biggest Graveyard
Expanding Iran's Biggest Graveyard
Expanding Iran's Biggest Graveyard

A citizen journalist in Tehran sent in these pictures of Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery, the single biggest burial place in the whole of Iran. “Today, October 13,” they wrote, “cemetery employees were digging new graves on the edges of the older, fuller areas. Newer lots are filling up quickly, and it seems they’ve decided to widen out the space as much as possible.”

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