IRAN'S CROSSROADS
Tehran, capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, located on the slopes of the Elburz Mountains looking south over Iran's central plateau, lies on age-old fields of war. Alexander the Great pursued Darius III here, Mongols sacked and plundered, and the great 19th-century Qajar dynasty made this its capital. The shah of Iran built a monument to 2,500 years of Iranian monarchs in the center of Tehran but was forced to flee the country soon after.
ECONOMYElectrical equipment, textiles, sugar, cement, motor vehicles, carpets, transportation, oil refining.Text source:
National Geographic Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition, 2004
