Iran plans to relocate its capital from Tehran to the southern Makran region due to economic and ecological issues. The move, still in its exploratory phase, aims to decentralise Tehran's dominance.

“Water consumption has increased at a shocking rate in the city and in the province of Tehran,” Nematollah Torki, the head of Tehran’s Management and Planning Organization, reportedly told the Iranian ...

we would have had to stop them in Tehran.” Mullah Mehdi Ta’eb, a close confidant of Khamenei, declared in February 2013: “Syria is our 35th and strategic province. If the enemy attacks us and forces a ...

Iran has announced plans to relocate its capital from Tehran, the nation’s largest city situated ... The Makran region, located in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province, is strategically significant ...