where is zahedan city in iran?

Answer 1

Zahedan, city in southeastern Iran, located near the borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, the capital of Sistan va Balochestan province. Lying east of the Dasht-e Lut desert, Zahedan is the main economic center of the region and home to many small- and medium-scale industries. Its main products include cotton textiles, woven and hand-knotted rugs, ceramics, processed foods, livestock feed, processed hides, milled rice, bricks, and reed mats and baskets. Highways link Zahedan to Tehran and Mashhad (Meshed) in the north, the port of Bandar Beheshti on the Gulf of Oman in the south, and the Pakistani city of Quetta in the east. A rail line also runs from Zahedan to Quetta, and a long-planned rail line from Zahedan to Kerman in central Iran was being constructed in the mid-1990s. Zahedan is also served by an airport. Like most Iranian cities, Zahedan has a Friday mosque, where many members of the community gather to worship on Friday. It also has a Sunni Mosque, a Sikh temple, and ruins of an old fortress. A colorful bazaar patronized by the local Baluchi tribes can also be found in the city. About 100 km (60 mi) south of Zahedan is an intermittently active volcano, Taftan, which rises abruptly 4,042 m (13,261 ft) from the surrounding plain. Although the surrounding area has some ancient sites, Zahedan has developed only in the 20th century. Before being chosen as the provincial administrative center in the 1930s, Zahedan was a small village. Its population reached 17,500 by 1956 and increased more than fivefold to 93,000 by 1976. After 1980 large numbers of refugees fleeing the invasion of Afghanistan by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) helped to triple the population of Zahedan to more than 281,000 by 1986. Population (1996) 419,518-.

Answer 2

Zahedan, city in southeastern Iran, located near the borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, the capital of Sistan va Balochestan province. Lying east of the Dasht-e Lut desert, Zahedan is the main economic center of the region and home to many small- and medium-scale industries.

Answer 3

Judging by your name, you know the answer already. I was there as a hippy travelling alone to India in late October 1978 just before the revolution against the Shah. Everyone knew a revolution would come soon but didn't know if it would be democratic, communist, Islamic ot just anarchy. But they didn't care, they just wanted rid of the Shah.

I had to travel in the back of a Toyota pickup to the Pakistani border. The Iranian border guards were very suspicious of me as very few foreigners went that way. I thought they were going to arrest me as a spy.

The journey from the Pakistani border village (can't remember its name, begins with T) across the rock desert of Baluchistan for 24 hours to Quetta in a 40 year old bus with solid rubber tyres, wooden seats and crammed with passengers and goods including the roof and hanging off the sides was the most amazing and uncomfortable ride of my life. Those were the days!

Answer 4

Zahedan, Iran is located about 20 miles West of the Eastern boarder of Iran. It is very close to Afghanistan's S.W. boarder where it touches Pakistan's N.W. boarder. It is approx.25 miles South of that S.W./N.W. intersection.

Answer 5

In Iran.