If you look carefully at a map of Iran, you can see that the western ... But because of its size and geography, Iran is not a country that can be easily traversed, much less conquered.

Iran has been using geography to its advantage however. When looking at the map of the Strait of Hormuz, one can see how precarious the shipping situation could become if Iran decided to use ...

Iran had said in November that it was banning the new edition of the atlas, as well as National Geographic journalists, until the map for the Gulf region was changed. It objected to the eighth ...

Iran's culture ministry said the atlas published by U.S.-based National Geographic labelled the waters as the "Persian Gulf", but also included the "Arabian Gulf" name in parentheses on the map.

Iran yesterday celebrated a National Geographic map revision by naming a major highway after the "Persian Gulf." Iran yesterday celebrated a National Geographic map revision by naming a major ...

TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) -- Encyclopedia of Iran’s mythical, epic, and historical geography is to be compiled by the Language and Dialect Research Center of the country’s Cultural Heritage ...