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Iranian Kurdish town embraces citizen activism

Marivan, a small Kurdish town in western Iran, has earned a reputation for citizen activism.

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Hunter Ahmadi Azizi destroys his rifle in Daraki, a village in Marivan, Iran. Azizi's daughter asked him to never hunt again after he returned home with a dead partridge. — Iranian NGO Anjoman-e Sabz Chya

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