A viral video shows 'blood rain' flowing down an Iranian mountain. This rare phenomenon looks like red rain and is caused by ...

Now, a new study pinpoints where one wave of those encounters occurred — the Zagros Mountains in what is now mostly Iran.

The tear is now heading toward northwest Iran. These dynamics aren't immediately ... This collision created mountains, which pressed down on the crust around them, creating a depression.

Long, twisting roads draw lines over the valleys and slopes here in western Iran. They are ancient paths, trodden by feet and hooves for thousands of years in the ever repeating movement of migration.

Maymand is a self-contained, semi-arid area at the end of a valley at the southern extremity of Iran’s central mountains. The villagers are semi-nomadic agro-pastoralists. They raise their animals on ...