LOCATIONS

Ahvaz – capital city of the western province of Khuzestan and near the Iran–Iraq border

Ghazvin – a major city in northern Iran

Golab-Darreh – a town north of Tehran, in the Alborz mountain range

Kermanshah – the capital city of Kermanshah province in western Iran

Mashad – a city in north-eastern Iran and near the borders of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan; considered holy as the site of the Shrine of Imam Reza

Mount Damavand – the highest peak of the Alborz mountain range, north of Tehran

Qum – a city south-west of Tehran and the centre for Shi’a Islam scholarship. Considered holy as the site of the Fatima al-Massoumeh Shrine

Rezaieh – a city in north-western Iran and the capital of West Azerbaijan province

Shemiran – northern suburb of Tehran

Tabriz – the capital city of East Azerbaijan province in northern Iran

Zahedan – the capital city of Sistan and Baluchestan province, near the border with Pakistan and Afghanistan