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Kurdish smugglers...Iran/Iraq border (PiP)

Kurdish smugglers...Iran/Iraq border (PiP)
On the Iran/Iraq border in Iranian Kurdistan. At 3500 meters altitude in Zagros Mountains. Smugglers move in a steady stream, climbing huge mountains, with 40 kilo weights of flat screen TVs and electronics, from Iraq to Iran, where there are very high duties on these items. See PiPs....first is from whence they climb...the valley below...they are the tiny orange specks, and number 2 shows the scale of the climbs they perfom....not to mention the walk through the valleys below evading border police. We spent a couple of enlightening hours with them.

Jean-luc Drouin, , , .t.a.o.n. and 27 other people have particularly liked this photo


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 slgwv
slgwv club
Wow. Just wow.
6 years ago.
 Fred Fouarge
Fred Fouarge club
ik dacht eerst de post,,,wat een gehannes langs die bergwand
6 years ago.
 Jean-luc Drouin
Jean-luc Drouin
Superbe !
5 years ago.
 Nautilus
Nautilus club
photo "choc" de reportage ! je ne comprend pas , cependant, pourquoi ils entourent leurs charges de toiles orange , très visibles . Une toile grise , ou marron les feraient moins repérer par les douaniers.
5 years ago.
 Diana Australis
Diana Australis club has replied
Les douaniers et la police ne sont trop vigilants....pour la paix ils ont les yeux à demi fermés. Ces hommes sont Kurds....ici est la frontière arbitraire entre Iraq et Iran..qui coupe en deux Kurdistan. On ne veut pas de problèmes avec les Kurds....
5 years ago. Edited 5 years ago.

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