Editing Geography of Iran (section)

==International territorial disputes==
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Iran is currently engaged in international territorial disputes with several neighbouring countries.

The country protests [[Afghanistan]]'s limiting flow of dammed tributaries to the [[Helmand River]] in periods of drought. The lack of a [[maritime boundary]] in the Persian Gulf with [[Iraq]] also prompts jurisdictional disputes beyond the mouth of the Arvand Rud. Iran and the [[United Arab Emirates]] have a [[territorial dispute]] over the [[Greater and Lesser Tunbs]] and [[Abu Musa]] islands, which are administered by Iran. Iran currently insists on dividing the [[Caspian Sea]] resources equally among the five littoral states, after the Russian-backed former soviet breakaway republics refused to respect the 50-50 agreements between Iran and the Soviet Union (despite their international obligation). Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan continue to claim territorial waters thus regarding the Caspian Sea as open international body of water, dismissing its geographically lake nature.<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/iran/ CIA – The World Factbook – Iran<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

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File:Geographic sample iran.jpg|Southern [[Alborz]] range near Firouzkuh
File:Maranjab dunes in the Kavir Desert.jpg|Maranjab dunes, Kavir desert, Kashan
File:Aerial View of Damavand 26.11.2008 04-25-38.JPG|Aerial view of [[Mount Damavand]], [[Mazandaran]]
File:Badab-e Surt Samaee.jpg|[[Badab-e Surt]], [[Mazandaran]]
File:Ghaleye Rud Khan (40) 4.jpg|[[Northern Iran|Rain forest]] in [[Gilan]]
File:Zayandehroud .jpg|[[Zayanderud]] and [[Khajoo Bridge]] over it in [[Isfahan]]
File:Kabir Kooh Mountains.jpg|[[Kabir Kuh]] ranges, part of [[Zagros]] Mountains in [[Ilam province]]
File:منطقه آبپخش.jpg|Sunset in [[Ab Pakhsh|Ab-Pakhsh]] ([[Bushehr province]])
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