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Analysis of terrorism geography in southeast of Iran

 Hasan Izadi - Assistant professor of geography department in Shiraz University

Aliakbar Dabiri- M.A. in political geography, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad

 Abstract

Terrorism geography tries to analyze effects that geography has in forming terrorism phenomena in geographical areas. In Iran geographical and geopolitical characteristics especially in borders and regions near them have significant effects in forming and the act of terrorist groups. This effects in southeast of Iran is more torrid and objective. In fact some of geographical basis (humanistic and natural) like weak roots of being, long distances to capital of government, existence of vast geographic features, unbalanced regional development, ethic-religion differences with central government, weakness and being in borders of communicational network and etc. as Infrastructure factors and some geopolitical factors like characteristics of neighborhood governments, regional powers and Trans-regional powers and geopolitical of drugs as Exogenous factors have the most effect in forming terrorist groups in southeast of country. In this paper in the same time we try to analyze geography of terrorism in southeast of country along with geographical and geopolitical characteristics that are effective in forming and activities of terrorist groups in this area

 Key words: terrorism, terrorist groups, terrorism geography, Sistan and Balouchestan, Islamic Republic of Iran

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