Geography of Iran

Summer has come to Sistan and Baluchistan province, an impoverished fragment of chapped earth and shimmering heat in Iran's southeast corner, and all people there can talk about is how to get water.

Riot police were deployed in force on Nov. 27 in the Iranian city of Isfahan, a day after dozens were arrested in violent protests over the drying up of a lifeblood river.

Security forces fired tear gas during the clashes with stone-throwers in the protest in the dry bed of the Zayadneh Rood river that crosses the city, Fars and ISNA news agencies said.

An Iranian missile fired during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman struck a support vessel near its target, killing 19 Iranian sailors and wounding 15, Iran's state media reported on May 11, amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington.

In this file photo taken on March 12, 2017, an Iranian military speedboat patrols the waters as a tanker prepares to dock at the oil facility in the Khark Island, Iran.

Twelve people died in a bus crash in Iran, the world's agencies have reported, quoting local media cited by BTA.

Iran has found a dozen new oil fields that could produce 30 billion barrels of crude and 128 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to Press TV quoting officials in Tehran.

A high-rise building in Tehran engulfed by a fire collapsed on Jan. 19, killing at least 30 firefighters and injuring some 75 people, state media reported.

A few days ago, columnist Nevşin Mengü wrote an excellent piece in this newspaper, "Iran's Turkish question," (HDN, Nov. 22). Ms. Mengü wrote that she was wandering around a historic caravansary outside Kashan in Iran where a young man said there was no such language as Turkish as "Turkish was a dialect of Farsi."

BELGRADE - As Riyadh conducts military drills in the Persian Gulf, Iran's Revolutionary Guards have called the exercises an unnecessary provocation that risks escalating tensions in the region.

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