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The U.S. and Israeli military have dropped bombs on targets across Iran but villagers in southern Iran discovered something entirely different dropped into backyards and gardens around their town, a video verified by NBC News shows: American anti-tank mines.
The landmines, identified by several munitions experts as U.S.-made BLU-91/B, were found in Jamal Abad, a village on the outskirts of Shiraz, near a missile base that had been struck earlier in the Iran war. N.R. Jenzen-Jones, director of arms intelligence firm Armament Research Services, told Bellingcat, who first reported on the discovery, that the mines appear to have been dropped from the air. In the video, published on March 26, a crowd of villagers and journalists can be seen walking through the rain-drenched side streets of the village into several backyard lots. One mine is found beside a wall next to a volleyball court. Another is found upside down, half-buried in a garden behind a house. The group moves on to a driveway where a man guiding the group explains that someone was killed by accidentally setting off a mine while trying to move it away from his car. Video shows the back tire and side of the truck riddled with shrapnel next to the blown apart pieces of another mine. “He got close to this mine and tried to take it,” a man guiding the group says. “But it was blown up.” NBC News has not confirmed reports of any deaths caused by landmines during Operation Epic Fury. The Department of Defense did not reply to questions about the mines on Friday. Iranian media have posted images of landmines that appear to be the same as those seen in the video. The location of the mines in these photos could not be independently verified. Anti-tank mines are not prohibited in warfare by the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. While the U.S. has never signed the treaty, the Biden administration pledged in 2022 not to use anti-personnel landmines. No anti-personnel mines could be seen in the video, the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor told NBC News. “We’re calling on the US not to deploy antipersonnel mines under any circumstances, and we’re watching this situation closely,” the organization said. Jamal Abad sits at the base of a segment of the Zagros Mountains where a missile facility was struck earlier in March, according to satellite imagery from Planet Labs PBC. Sam Lair, a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, said several missile launchers were destroyed in the attack during the outbreak of war.
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