Tag: Hamid Hashemi

Iranian official criticized for silence on land mines

  The Cultural Heritage News Agency has criticized Massoud Soltanifar, the head of the Cultural Heritage Organization, for failing to address the death of a traveller in Shahdad Dessert last month due to a land mine explosion. The report laments the fact that Soltanifar failed to mention the incident at his press conference and, “without […]

Landmine Explosion in Non-Border Area Claims Another Life in Iran

  The explosion of a landmine in the Shahdad desert of Kerman Province has left one man dead and three others critically injured. This is the second incident in less than three months of a landmine explosion in a non-border area located in Iran’s Lut Desert, at least 300 kilometers from the closest border with […]