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THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE
Iran's role in history, dictated by its geography, has been that of
a land-bridge between Europe, Asia and Mediterranean world on the
one hand, and between Central Asia and South-East Asia on the other.
The many waves of invasions which have swept across Iran in the
course of the centuries have led to a dilution of the original Aryan
Stock.
As Cyrus the Younger rightly observed over two thousand years ago:
"My father's empire reaches southwards as far as where it is too hot
for men to live, and northwards to where it is too cold" Their
terrain of the central plateau is characterized by wide plains
traversed by mountain ranges. The tow principal mountain ranges, the
Zagros and the Elburz, diverge from a point of intersection in the
Caucasus mountains; the former crosses Iran in a south-easterly
direction toward the Persian Gulf.
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