Ilya Jazayeri is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Farda.
Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan is the most impoverished province in the country. Malnutrition is rife in the village of Mirabad, where people survive on subsistence farming and many children can't attend school because they don't have a birth certificate.
Iran shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet last year, killing all aboard amid tensions with the United States over the assassination of a top Iranian general. Relatives of the victims are struggling with the pain of the tragedy and what they see as a lack of accountability and justice.