Mahmoud Saremi

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mahmoud Saremi (محمود صارمی; ?–August 8, 1998) was an Iranian reporter, working for IRNA, as the news agency's head of office in Mazari Sharif. He was killed by the Taliban when they occupied the Iranian consulate in Mazari Sharif, together with six Iranian diplomats.

Saremi's day of death (17 Mordad in the Iranian calendar) is named Reporter's Day in Iran. A boulevard in Tehran, in Ekbatan, is also named after Saremi [1].