Vehicles destroyed and planted in the ground by Iraqi military forces in Khorramshahr, a city in southwest Iran, in 1986 during the Iran-Iraq War. (Photographer: Kamran Jebreili)
The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) culminated in at least half a million dead, hundreds of thousands more wounded, and a significant economic toll that is still felt today. Like many towns and cities along the shared border, Khorramshahr was destroyed and emptied. It has since been rebuilt and its population size has nearly recovered.
Kamran Jebreili is an Iranian photographer whose professional career in documentary photography began with his coverage of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and Iran-Iraq War.