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Iran images appear to show land mines scattered by U.S. forces, a first in years

The land mines were photographed outside Shiraz, a city located about three miles from one of several nearby Iranian ballistic missile sites.

Screenshot from video filmed in a village near Shiraz, Iran, shows what appears to be a land mine scattered by U.S. forces. (Dimitri Lascaris, Reason2Resist)

Images posted to social media Thursday show what experts said are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran, in what appears to be the first instance in more than two decades of American forces using the weapons.

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