Abadan

(4) PhD, Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Nursing, Abadan School of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran.

Corresponding Author: Mohammad Mahboobi, Assistant professor Abadan College of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Abadan, Iran

This takes us back 35 years to August 19, 1978 when Cinema Rex, in the petroleum city of Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze killing 470 Iranian nationals.

Some $4.1 billion is required for the Esfahan refinery project and $2.8 billion for the espansion of Abadan, Iran's oldest refinery, Mehr said.

Indeed, Golestan's images of violence, death and suffering are not easy to look at, much less process without discomfort, but some of his other photographs do provide some comparative relief, such as his surreal image of clerics conferring at a mullahs' conference on the side of road in Abadan, Iran, in a desolate setting that resembles a no man's land.