Iranian Vice President and Minister of Environment Masoumeh Ebtekar arrives at Kerman Airport (KER), having flown Mahan Air Airbus A300B4-603, reg. EP-MNG (cn 401). Flight details of what appears to be a regularly scheduled commercial flight provided below (source Flightradar24):
Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar received at KER by Ali-Reza Razm-Hosseini (foreground, left), the governor general of Kerman province.
Ebetkar's trip focused on Jazmurian wetland restoration, water management and labor issues, and a meeting with Environmental Watch officials.
Ebtekar and Razm-Hosseini at a "green belt" construction site, "aimed at combating speculation, prevent the entry of dust and increase the per capita green area of Kerman." The program was initiated during the last year (Persian calendar). Employing drip irrigation method, this belt includes trees such as barberry and oleander, olive, cypress, pine, and bitter jujube. [source: Mehr News Agency]
Pine tree planting directed by Vice President Ebtekar. To her right is Kerman Mayor Abolghasem Seyfollahi.
Protectors of Iran's biodiversity, Iranian Department of Environment (DoE) Game Guards stand at attention for Vice President and Minister of Environment Masoumeh Ebtekar.
Vice President Ebtekar lays flowers at what appear to be graves of fallen DoE Game Guards, killed on duty defending Iran's biodiversity. (For additional reading on DoE Game Guards, click
HERE)
Ebtekar is known to Americans as "Tehran Mary," serving as spokesperson for the students in the Iran hostage crisis of 1979, where Iranian students occupied the US Embassy and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
Photos: Islamic Republic News Agency
