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Hace 2 días · M 4.9 - 2 km NNW of Kāshmar, Iran . 2024-06-18 09:54:49 (UTC) 35.261°N 58.458°E; 10.0 km depth; Interactive Map. Contributed by US 1 ; Regional Information. Contributed by US 1 ; Felt Report - Tell Us! 0 . 0 . 0 . 0 . 0 . 5 . Responses. Contribute to citizen science. Please tell us about your experience.
Hace 3 días · Heavy civilian casualties in both Lebanon and Israel are a certainty in such a war. Israel’s American allies have been urging it to hold fire. Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to President Joe ...
Rasht, city, capital of Gīlān province, north-central Iran. It lies about 15 miles (24 km) south of the Caspian Sea on a branch of the Sefīd River, where the higher ground merges into the marshlands fringing the Mordāb, or Anzalī (formerly Pahlavī), lagoon.
Hace 4 días · Iran - Mountains, Plateaus, Deserts: A series of massive, heavily eroded mountain ranges surrounds Iran’s high interior basin. Most of the country is above 1,500 feet (460 meters), with one-sixth of it over 6,500 feet (1,980 meters).
Hace 22 horas · Iran - Religion, Islam, Shia: The vast majority of Iranians are Muslims of the Ithnā ʿAsharī, or Twelver, Shiʿi branch, which is the official state religion. The Kurds and Turkmen are predominantly Sunni Muslims, but Iran’s Arabs are both Sunni and Shiʿi.
Hace 2 días · Tehran was first chosen as the capital of Iran by Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar Empire in 1786, because of its proximity to Iran's territories in the Caucasus, then separated from Iran in the Russo-Iranian Wars, to avoid the vying factions of the previously ruling Iranian dynasties.
Hace 4 días · With a dramatic topography reflective of its proximity to the highest peak in the country, Tehrān is Iran’s gateway to the outside world. Tehrān’s image abroad was strongly influenced by the Iranian Revolution of the late 1970s.
