War photojournalist Maryam Kazemzadeh, widow of guerilla Asghar Vesali, dies at 66  

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region in 1980, passed away on Tuesday from cancer at the age of 66.She was the widow of Asghar Vesali, the leader of Dastmal Sorkhha, an
Iranian guerilla group that joined Mostafa Chamran, the chief of the Iranian volunteers fighting a war against the separatists in the
Kordestan region in the early 1980s.Kazemzadeh was one of the few freelance Iranian women photojournalists, who recorded scenes of battles
accompanied Chamran in his guerilla war in the Kordestan region, where she met Vesali.He was the leader of Dastmal Sorkhha, a guerilla group
having a narrow piece of red cloth around their necks
The pieces of cloth were from a shirt one of their comrade wore in an operation
The comrade was killed and they tore up his shirt into pieces and tied them around their neck, swore not to remove the piece of the cloth
until they would get his revenge.War for the motherland joined Kazemzadeh to Vesali and they began their married life in the warzone in
Mahabad
Following the defeat of the separatists in Kordestan, the couple left the region for the frontline in the Sar-e Pol-e Zahab region