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Saffron harvest in Iran

Saffron flowers
Saffron flowers are ready for picking on a farm Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP
Saffron pickers
Iranian women pick the saffron flowers in the fields. Despite Iran's status as the undisputed champion of the saffron world, it faces losing market share in the 3,000 year-old industry. Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP
Saffron pickers
An Iranian woman holds some freshly picked flowers Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP
Saffron pickers
A worker walks her full bag of flowers to the collection point. It takes anything from 70,000 to 250,000 flowers to make 1lb (0.4kg) of saffron Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP
Saffron
Separated saffron filaments. Saffron is now possibly the most expensive spice in the world, reaching up to £1,000 a kilogram on the international markets Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP
Saffron pickers
Iranian workers sort and clean filaments during processing at the Novin saffron factory, at Touss, near Mashhad, in north-east Iran Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP
Saffron pickers
A close-up picture shows the intricate nature of separating and cleaning the filaments Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP
Saffron cleaning
A mass of saffron filaments await final processing Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP
Saffron workers
Workers delicately pick out the ready filaments Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP
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