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| | NCRI Statement 07/05/2000 |
 | | When the news of the child's murder reached the people of Piranshahr, infuriated people took to the streets and staged a large demonstration. | | | They suppress the people and extort money in Piranshahr region. | | | Chanting "Down with mullahs' rule," the crowd attacked the headquarters of repressive agencies as well as the municipality building, the city hall, Khomeini's Committee, and other government buildings, turning Piranshahr into a liberated city. |
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| | ICRC operations from Iran continue |
| | Meanwhile, ICRC has been collaborating with the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) in dispatching a range of humanitarian items through various border-crossing points to key locations in Iraq. | | | The Iranian government, mainly through its foreign ministry's Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants Affairs, the Civil Aviation Organisation and the Customs Organisation, has been actively supporting the operations, and facilitating access to Iraq through the Khosravi, Shalamcheh, Mehran, Banjwin and Piranshahr border-crossing points. | | | Five convoys left Orumiyeh (through the Piranshahr border) to Arbil, Iraq, while two other convoys were sent from Kermanshah through the Khosravi and Mehran borders to Baghdad, and finally one convoy transporting relief items was dispatched from Kermanshah to Al-Kut, Iraq. |
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| | Clashes between protesters and security forces in Piranshahr leave casualties (KurdishMedia.com) |
| | Several thousands of Kurdish population of the city of Piranshahr (Iranian Kurdistan) protested against the killing of Fayegh Rajabi a Kurdish toiler by security forces of Iran. | | | Thousands of Kurdish residents of the city of Piranshahr in West Azerbayjan province, Iranian Kurdistan, protested over the killing of a Kurdish toiler by security forces on Saturday, March 11, 2006. | | | The Gharz al Hasane bank of government was set on fire by the protesters. |
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http://www.kurdmedia.com/articles.asp?id=11641
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| | Clashes between Kurdish protesters and Iranian security forces |
| | Several thousands of Kurdish people in the city of Piranshahr (Iranian Kurdistan) protested against the killing of Fayegh Rajabi a Kurdish toiler by security forces of Iran. | | | Thousands of Kurdish people in the city of Piranshahr in West Azerbayjan province of Iranian Kurdistan protested the killing a Kurdish toiler by security forces on Saturday, March 11 2006. | | | Since July 2005 over 50 of Iranian Kurd have been killed by the brutal special forces during numerous demonstrations in the Kurdish cities of Iran. |
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http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2006/3/irankurdistan146.htm
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| | PDKI - Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan - WELCOME |
| | The lands are given by regime of Islamic republic to none Kurds people to use according to the policy of regime. | | | The regime prevents Kurdish people to build any building on their lands in Piranshahr region. | | | The security forces of Islamic republic of Iran killed at least 5 people in the cities of Sanandaj, Piranshahr and Marivan |
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| | RFE/RL Iran Report |
| | "Following the murder of a 15-year-old youth by an Iraqi criminal, the members of the family of the victim burned the house and car of the murderer in the town of Piranshahr," the report said. | | | Piranshahr is predominantly Kurdish, many of whom are refugees from Iraq. | | | There were 13 hours of street violence -- groups of people attacked and damaged public buildings -- in Piranshahr near the Iraqi border, state television reported on 5 July. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2000/27-170700.html
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| | The Intelligence Summit Blog: Intelligence News and Information |
| | There is a heavy police presence at every major junction, square, and highway in and around the cities of Sanandaj, Piranshahr, and Mahabad and security forces are attempting to arrest any individual seeking to take part in protests. | | | Agents of the paramilitary police, the Revolutionary Guards, and plainclothes agents of the secret police, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security, moved in to take control of the cities to limit unrest as people took to the streets. | | | Protests began after agents of the State Security Forces (SSF) shot and killed a young man in his car at a stop-and-search point. |
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http://intelligence-summit.blogspot.com/2006/03/martial-law-imposed-in-volatile-iran.html
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| | NCRI Statement 07/05/2000a |
| | Additional reports on the two-day uprising in the western Iranian city of Piranshahr indicate that the large-scale antigovernment protest that began on Monday, continued until late last night. | | | The enraged protesters also attacked the local Intelligence Department, throwing stones and breaking its window and heavily damaging the building. | | | At 11:30 pm last night, the suppressive forces sealed off the city's main streets and squares, including Istighlal street and Istighlal square, and began arresting the demonstrators. |
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http://www.iran-e-azad.org/english/ncr/2000/0705a.html
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| | BLUE: Kurdish Issues |
| | Khaled and Omar were sentenced to death by Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Mahabad on various charges including membership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran and activities against the Islamic regime. | | | Despite his injury at the time of arrest, he has been subjected to severe torture during his imprisonment | | | Omar Feghe-poor is married and was also arrested in Piranshahr and has experienced imprisonment and torture |
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http://www.bluegreenearth.com/site/events/kurd_data.html
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| | Hamiz Reza Asefi, the Iranian Foreign Ministry's senior spokesman immediately condemned severely the attack as "unprovoked and unexplainable", and warned that the Turkish government would have to "shoulder all the consequences", according to the official news agency IRNA. | | | Iranian public media reported that Turkish warplanes had dropped rockets and bombs on Iranian border outposts in Piranshahr and villages around the city, killing and wounding several people, including some guards, and causing extensive damages. | | | July (IPS) Iran told Turkey that it reserves the right to retaliate to the Turkish air raid on Piranshahr, a border village the Turks says rebels and separatists of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) have bases there. |
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http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles/iran_turkey_attack_1879900.html
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| | The protests in the Kurdish areas came after the killing of a Kurdish activist by Iranian security forces in the city of Mahabad on July 9. | | | In the worst violence so far, Iranian security forces are reported to have killed at least 12 Kurdish demonstrators and injured more than 70 in a clash in the city of Saqiz on Wednesday. | | | Since then, anti-regime demonstrations have erupted in the mainly Kurdish towns of Sanandaj, Mahabad, Sardasht, Piranshahr, Oshnavieh, Divandareh, Baneh, Sinne, Bokan and Saqiz. |
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http://www.iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2005&m=08&d=05&a=4
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| | Foundationfor Democracy in Iran |
| | And some of the remaining money appears to have been mis-spent as well, given to supporters of "reformist" clerics in Iran, not to groups and political parties who seek to put an end to absolute clerical rule. | | | Similar unrest and regime counter-attacks was reported in other Kurdish towns, including Piranshahr and Sanandaj. | | | The riot took place following the murder of a resident by Islamist Militiamen, and the refusal of the local authorities to restitute the body of the victim to his family. |
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| | Hungering for Liberty Grassroots |
| | Hundreds of protesters came, again, into streets in order to call for a democratic change in Iran, despite the heavy presence of Islamic regime's forces. | | | Therefore, there are those in Iran who conclude they are due like chances for democracy in their time. | | | "Violent clashes continued, yesterday and this evening, in several western Iranian cities, such as, Mahabad, Baneh and Piranshahr. |
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http://magic-city-news.com/printer_3641.shtml
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| | Middle East: Fear, flight and forcible exile in the Middle East |
| | Amnesty International's one million members around the world believe that human rights are for everyone. | | | Around two million Iraqi Kurds and Arabs fled after the war when Iraqi Government forces brutally crushed uprisings in the north and south of the country. | | | Front cover photograph: An Iraqi Kurdish mother and child waiting to cross from Iraq into Iran, near the border town of Piranshahr, 1991 © David Stewart-Smith |
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http://www.amnestyusa.org/regions/middleeast/document.do?id=C51708C0DBF5A9B280256900006930BF
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| | Thousands of Piranshahr inhabitants came to the streets of the city in the same day and assaulted on government buildings and Banks.During their protests they clashed with the suppressive forces of the Islamic regime, a number were wounded and tens of others were arrested. | | | People in Kurdish twon of Piranshahr protested killing of a young man, "Ebrahim Hameh Root(m)", on 16 December 2002. | | | On 16 December 2002, while he was on his way back home from a market near the Iraqi border, suppressive forces of the Islamic regime opened fire on him without any reason. |
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http://www.kanoon-zendanian.org/english/Piranshahr.htm
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| | Violent clashes have been reported from cities, such as, Kermanshah, Hamedan and Piranshahr which were, this evening, scenes of mass 9/11 remembrance. | | | Several mourners were seen as seriously injured and some of them were pulled by their hairs by the regime's forces. | | | The Islamic republic's Bassidj forces and Pasdaran came into action by 20:00 (IR local time) in order to attack young mourners who started to light on their candles in order to show their sympathy for the American nation and the families of the 9/11 Tragedy. |
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http://www.iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news_en.pl?l=en&y=2002&m=09&d=11&a=13
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| | West Azarbaijan Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Dehkhoda also mentions in his dictionary that "the language of Azarbaijan is a branch of the Iranian languages known as Azari". | | | Five of the cities in the province have predominantly Kurdish populations, namely: Oshnaviyeh, Piranshahr, Bukan, Sardasht, and Mahabad. | | | The present number of townships was achieved over time by subdivision of many of the larger townships into smaller ones. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Azarbaijan
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| | Captain's Quarters: Comment on Does Anyone Like Al-Jazeera? |
| | Slogans against the Islamic regime and its leadership were shouted by protesters despite the brutal attack of militiamen using rubber bullets and tear gas. | | | Several demonstrators were injured and dozens arrested during some of the clashes happened in Piranshahr, Mahabad and Saghez. |
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http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=4324
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| | IranPressNews (English): Angry people in Peeranshahr confront the Regime's barbarous disciplinary guards |
| | The news of this brutal murder reached the citizens of Piranshahr in no time. | | | As the victim's body was being driven to the city morgue hundreds of seething people poured into the streets; the angry citizens began chanting anti-regime slogans and started marching toward the town's command headquarters, demanding that the killers be identified and punished for their crime. | | | The regime's forces that have now made it a habit to loot and plunder shops and merchants in various towns and cities began shooting at shopkeepers in this town, killing one. |
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| | TerraNet Portal Site |
| | The town is close to the borders with Turkey and Iraq, an area which has seen suspect bird deaths. | | | Iranian authorities have banned trade in live poultry in the northwestern town of Piranshahr amid fears of the spread of bird flu, the state news agency IRNA said. |
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| | FEARING TURKISH GENERALS WRATH, IRANIAN CLERICS BACKS OFF |
| | Bolandian acknowledged the area bombarded near Piranshahr is a place where Turkey had already launched operations against the PKK guerrillas extending from the heights of northern Iraq to the Iranian territory. | | | But not only the Turkish Government and military have rejected Iranian charges, saying their plane never bombed any area inside Iran, they even accused the Islamic Republic of giving military training to the Turkish Kurdish Stalinist organisation that seeks independence from Turkey. | | | Speaking to the official news agency IRNA, the Iranian deputy Interior Minister for Security and Intelligence Affairs Qolamhossein Bolandian played down the recent Turkish attacks on Iranian border areas, killing 5 and wounding another ten people by describing the incident a "mistake". |
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http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles/iran_turkey_30799.html
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| | WorldNetDaily: Report: Iranian youth defy ayatollah |
| | Protests began after state security agents shot and killed a young man in his car at a checkpoint. | | | A de facto martial law was imposed in several volatile cities in the northwestern province of Kurdistan as paramilitary police, the Revolutionary Guards and plainclothes agents of the secret police moved in. | | | On Saturday in Piranshahr, banks, police cars and government buildings were set on fire as violent clashes erupted between security forces and angry residents. |
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49265
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| | In Defence of Marxism - General commercial shutdown in Iranian Kurdistan |
| | Shops and businesses in Mahabad, Oshnooyeh, Piranshahr, Sardasht, Sanandaj, Divandareh, Kamyaran and Saghez were shut down. | | | In the absence of any large scale solidarity from Kurds in other countries and Iranian workers outside Kurdistan, and given the shortcomings of the current Kurdish leadership, the general commercial shutdown was all that the masses could achieve at this point. | | | In each town the regime's response has been yet more repression. |
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| | IRIB PERSIAN NEWS PAGE |
| | Piranshahr, West Azarbaijan prov., June 13 - Iran's Deputy Commerce Minister Mojtaba Khosrowtaj said in this northwestern city Monday that the country's non-oil export is expected to reach 8.5 billion dollars this year. | | | He said that consolidation of foreign trade infrastructures and backing non-oil export are the priorities of his ministry. | | | He added that the value of non-oil export will register a rise of 20 percent compared to the last Iranian calendar year of 1383 (ended March 20, 2005). |
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| | Revolutionary Guards Set Fire To Piranshahr's Forest in Clashes With Local People |
| | The clashes followed a demonstration in Piranshahr two weeks ago, when the Guards Corps opened fire on people killing a 7-year-old child and wounding a large number of people. | | | Fire began when Revolutionary Guards followed dissidents into the forest of the Jabr Hussein region to kill or arrest them. | | | In the course of this fire which continued until the next morning, large parts of this forest and 120 acres of pasture were completely destroyed. |
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http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/media/2003/news_19980911_ir2.htm
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| | Iran Mining |
| | He declared that 1:2000, 1:5000 maps of Ahmadabad molybdenum reserve had been completed and its 1:100,000 geological maps were at final stage. | | | Simultaneously with the execution of exploration activities in the country's twenty zones, Ahmadabad molybdenum and Piranshahr gold were exploited. | | | Baqer Dorri, the Geological Survey of Iran's manger for metallic exploration group, in an interview announced that" About one-third of the country's exploration zones, have undergone metallic exploration activities,and more than 25 metallic promising areas have been recognized and introduced." The most important of which are Ahmadabad and Piranshahr. |
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| | _ The occupation of garrisons of Mahabad, Pasveh and Piranshahr in the first days of the Islamic Revolution of Iran’s triumph by the belligerent groups of hypocrites and the associated groups. | | | The most important events occurred in the very beginning months of the Islamic Revolution of Iran till the time of the appearance of the first signs of a military coup are as follows: | | | _ The massive clash of March 1979 (Noruz 1358) in Sanandaj City with the extensive efforts of the armed forces present in Kurdistan Province for destroying the garrison of Lashkar 28, and in order to disarmament of the garrisons of Mahabad, Pasveh and Piranshahr. |
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| | Kurdistan: between Iran and Iraq, a permeable border - aliraqi Community |
| | Between Kurdish Iran and Iraq, the smuggling routes and small-time profiteers are many. | | | Whether small-scale or organised, smuggling brings fruit, whiskey, vodka, tea and other foodstuffs manufactured in Iraqi Kurdish towns to Iranian Kurdistan. | | | The majority gain entry onto Iranian soil through two places - the towns of Sardasht in the south and Piranshahr further to the north. |
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http://www.aliraqi.org/forums/showthread.php?referrerid=7953&t=49983
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| | J. Nouraei & M. Mostafavi Law Office |
| | The city of Piranshahr with a population of 92,000 is located | | | Hossein Kheyrollah-Nia said here Tuesday that exchange of goods | | | Piranshahr, May 7, IRNA -- Head of the Piranshahr customs department |
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| | Iran: Country Faces Agitated Kurdish Population - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY |
| | In mid-June, security forces in Mahabad clashed with Kurds who were celebrating the election of Masud Barzani. | | | On 6 June, joyful young Kurds in Mahabad and Piranshahr celebrated the election of Talabani as Iraq's president by setting off fireworks and displaying Kurdish flags. | | | Second-round turnout in the predominantly Kurdish cities of West Azerbaijan was very low: Bukan (12 percent), Mahabad (15 percent), Piranshahr (15 percent), and Sardasht (16 percent). |
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| | Iran News - West Azerbaijan border markets boom |
| | Meanwhile, Piranshahr was first in import records of the six-month period with $7.3 million. | | | The province, located on Iran’s northwest transit passage, includes several import and export centers. |
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http://iranmania.com/News/ArticleView?NewsCode=25908&...&Economy
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| | Welcome to TTO - News |
| | West Azerbaijan province which is located on the neighboring of Turkey, Iraq and self directed Republic of Nakhjavan, is on the way of traditional Silk Road and Oromyeh Road and can play a major role in Trasika Corridor. | | | This province in addition to having many official road borders including Bazargan Frontier which is the greatest land border point of the country with the highest rate of traffic, has many informal borders including Tamarchin which is in Hadj Omran of Piranshahr through which a great volume of consignments are transited. | | | Engineer Firouzi added that in the same period of time, about 86,376 tons of cargos with the value of 77,049,000 USD have been imported to the country via this area, which shows 87 percent growth in terms of volume but not a significant difference in value comparing to the imports of last year. |
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http://www.tto-ir.org/News/NewsE/subnews2.asp?subID=734&RowNo=110
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| | Michael Rubin on Iraq on National Review Online |
| | While the Turkish government denied that the strike into Iran was intentional, Defense Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu defended Turkey's military. | | | The incident was a shock to many in Iran. | | | On July 18, 1999, the Turkish Air Force bombed the Iranian frontier town of Piranshahr, hitting the town, surrounding villages, and an Iranian border outpost. |
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| | In the name of Great Kurdistan Tehran |
| | During Iran/Iraq war, Iraqi planes bombarded this town on 28.06.1987, by mustard gas and other poisonous materials ferociously. | | | Sardasht is a comparatively small town, located between Baneh, Mahabad and Piranshahr, at the western boarder of Iran. | | | In chilling Jack Frost and hot sun beams. |
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| | IranianVoice.org - Reports of Clashes from the Teacher's Demonstration Today! |
| | The regime forces have been deployed in front of all official buildings, banks, mosques and are controlling all entry and exit accesses of the city. | | | More Special troops have been deployed in Piranshahr following the bloody clashes that rocked, yesterday evening, this western city. | | | More Special troops deployed in Piranshahr following a night of clashes |
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| | Economic news in brief |
| | Among West Azerbaijani cities, Piranshahr is considered as a fine example in agriculture improvements. | | | Since 2002, most of the investments in the city are made in the agricultural sector. | | | Therefore, farm and garden coverage in Piranshahr has extended from 8,000 hectares in 2002 to 19,000 hectares in 2004. |
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| | Avian Influenza Suspected In Death Of Iraqi Girl |
| | Raniya, the girl's home town, lies north of Lake Dukan, about 20 km (12 miles) west of the Iranian border, near the Iranian city of Piranshahr. |
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| | Green Piranshahr A Granite From Iran - Granite, Limestone, Marble, Quartzite, Sandstone, Slate & Travertine |
| | Please note that these are average samples only. | | | The Iranian Collection of Granite Materials : Green Piranshahr A | | | Green Piranshahr A Granite From Iran - Granite, Limestone, Marble, Quartzite, Sandstone, Slate & Travertine |
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| | SalamIran Magazine- August-99, Eclipse 99 |
| | The total eclipse can be observed at the provincial towns of Naqadeh, Mahabad, Piranshahr, Takab, Miandowab, Bukan and Shahindej which lie 30 to 60 Kms north of the path of the eclipse. | | | It will move from south of the West Azarbaijan up to the border of Pakistan with Iranian Sistan-Baluchestan Province. |
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