Comments on: Elika, a village in Iran’s Alborz Mountains http://gregcrouch.com/2013/elika-iranian-mountain-village website of author Gregory Crouch Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:30:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.9 By: Reflections on the Iran/Iraq War | Gregory Crouch http://gregcrouch.com/2013/elika-iranian-mountain-village#comment-84750 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:30:18 +0000 http://gregcrouch.com/?p=3394#comment-84750 […] The village of Elika that I posted about a few days ago measures the magnitude of the trauma Iran suffered in the conflict. Elika lost 13 sons in the war, and losses of that scale are reflected throughout the country. Billboards celebrating the martyrs lost in the war loom over cityscapes and countrysides. The martyrs cemeteries near Khomeni’s shrine outside Tehran stretch for kilometers, reminiscent of the First World War cemeteries in France and Belgium. […]

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