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Kaveh Golestan who has died aged 52, was a distinguished Iranian photojournalist; he was killed on Wednesday by a landmine near Kifri, a town in the southern part of Iraqi Kurdistan, where he was covering the war for BBC Television. Golestan was working with Jim Muir, the BBC (and former Daily Telegraph) correspondent, and their producer Stuart Hughes. At lunchtime on Wednesday they were investigating an abandoned Iraqi fort. As they stepped from their car, first Hughes and then Golestan trod on mines. Hughes is recovering from a foot injury at the American military hospital in Soleymanieh, but Golestan was instantly killed. He was a veteran of numerous conflicts, including the Troubles in Belfast, the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq war - during which he won a Pulitzer Prize while reporting on Saddam Hussein's chemical attacks on the Kurds in 1988 - and the uprisings that followed the first Gulf war. He had been a freelance for the BBC since the early 1990s, and a contract cameraman since 2000. Kaveh Ibrahim Golestan was born in Teheran on July 7 1950. His grandfather had edited a daily newspaper in Isfahan, and his father was a journalist and filmmaker who made a small fortune with a documentary about submarine security for oil pipelines, which was sold to oil companies around the world. Young Kaveh was educated at Raveh-e-Now, a school in Teheran, and made his first film, An Autumn (inspired by his father's film, A Fire, which won a prize at the Venice Film Festival), at the age of 11. Two years later he was sent to Millfield, Somerset, which he found repressive. He formed a pop group there, and, after the headmaster confiscated a recording they had made, he left the school and hitchhiked home to Teheran. 16
Golestan worked for a while as a musician and painter; but when his father's studio was shut down by Savak (the Shah's secret police) he decided to become a journalist. After a stint in Belfast he returned to Teheran, where he worked for Associated Press and Time magazine. In the early 1980s he was employed at the London office of Time-Life, but was drawn back to Iran by the prospect of covering the war with Iraq. In March 1988 Golestan was outside the northern Kurdish town of Halabja when Iraqi MiG- 26s launched the biggest chemical attack on a civilian population in history, deploying a cocktail of mustard gas and the nerve agents sarin, tabun and VX. "It was life frozen," he recalled. "Life had stopped, like watching a film and suddenly it hangs on one frame. It was a new kind of death to me. You went into a kitchen and you saw the body of a woman holding a knife where she had been chopping a carrot. "The aftermath was worse. Victims were still being brought in. Some villagers came to our chopper. They had 15 or 16 beautiful children, begging us to take them to hospital. So all the press sat there, and we were each handed a child to carry. As we took off, fluid came out of my little girl's mouth, and she died in my arms." He married, in 1975, Hengameh (which in Persian means "Revolution") Jalali, a fellowphotographer, who survives him; they had a son, Mehrak, who is now 19 and has followed his father into journalism.
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