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Kuh-e Shah Nakhjir

Kuh-e Shah Nakhjir (1 833m/6 014ft a.s.l.) is a mountain in the Zagros Mountains in Iran. The prominence is 511m/1 677ft. There's a trail leading to the summit. By elevation Kuh-e Shah Nakhjir is # 40 out of 406 in Ilam Province. By prominence Kuh-e Shah Nakhjir is # 9 out of 406 in Ilam Province. Nakhjir means hunting ground, and Kuh means mountain. In the past this area was used as a hunting ground, and hunters lead their prey to this area for the hunt.

Chris Biggers authored a 25 May 2023 JanesINTEL report looking at the site where the next Ghadir long-range radar was being built. This was the 7th Iranian member of the Rezonans-NE radar family that Janes had identified, including the single-array pilot site in Tehran.

In Iran, similarly to the BBC in the UK, specific "sections" of the FM band are occupied only by transmitters of one radio program, which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to properly determine the caught location. There are as many as a dozen Radio Varzesh transmitters operating in Iran on 92.5, including Kuh-e Shah Nakhjir in western Iran.

In the year 1350 [1974] the first ground station for collecting signal data was established and operational at the end of 1350 at Mount Nakhjir Peak (West Ilam). During the Imposed War, On 10 December 1980, the Iranian command post in Kermanshah requested that TFB.4 attack the al-Shohada border post in Iraq. Two F-5s executed a successful attack, but this only provoked the Iraqis into an attack on the Saleh Abad signals intelligence (SIGINT) post in Iran and the Nakhjir radio station. Eventually, the Iranians were left with no alternative but to bomb the SIGINT station themselves to destroy sensitive equipment; this was carried out by two F-5Es. During the following days the Iraqis continued occupying one Iranian border post after the other.

Ilam province is one of the more or less forested provinces of Iran. Before the period of Reza Shah, this area of Lorestan was called Pushtkoh. After the armed defeat of Eilat Ler and the establishment of the central government in Shahrivar 1314 AH. During the reign of Reza Shah, by the approval of the Board of Ministers and in order to remember the greatness and glory of the ancient Elam civilization, the name of Hossein Abad village was changed to Ilam and this village was chosen as the city and center of the province named Ilam. The area of ancient Elam civilization in Fars provinces. And today's Khuzestan was the focus, but apparently, the decision of the Reza Shah era to name the province of Ilam is due to the fact that the Pashtkoh region was also a part of the ancient Elam region. Ilam is the second province of Iran in terms of security.

The land around Kuh-e Shah Nakhjir is hilly in the northwest, but in the southeast it is the mountains. The highest place in the area has an altitude of 1,866 meters and is 1.5 km west of Kuh-e Shah Nakhjir. There are about 15 people per square kilometer around Kuh-e Shah Nakhjir has a small population. The nearest larger town is Ilam , 15.3 km northeast of Kuh-e Shah Nakhjir. The surroundings of Kuh-e Shah Nakhjir are almost covered in thickets. In the region around Kuh-e Shah Nakhjir, mountains, and springs are remarkably common. [ story 5 The climate is hot. The average temperature is 22 °C . The hottest month is July, at 36 °C , and the coldest is January, at 6 °C. The average rainfall is 443 millimeters per year. The wettest month is November, with 110 millimeters of rain, and the driest is July, with 1 millimeter.

The Shah Nakhjir mountain range in the southern part of Ilam city and the extension of the "Grab and Narges" mountains have been extended to the west of the region and by creating a large complex full of trees and forests up to the end of Takht Khan and Banroshan, a new and spectacular view has appeared for the tourists, and has brought under the shoulder of the road; "Cham Av" village is located, which has pristine and beautiful nature with small and big waterfalls, which doubles the colorful jewel of this area, and that is why it hosts hundreds of families from different parts of Ilam city during Nowruz, who set up a cheerful tent. And they get their freshness from nature.

A little way from the new road to Ilam, Saleh Abad, which takes the old road towards Ilam, there is the village of Marbareh, where there are dozens of martyrs of the sacred defense era and the bombings of the Baath regime planes. Nakhjir goes higher with the asphalt road, on the slopes of Shah Nakhjir mountain, beautiful plains with thousands of big and beautiful pine trees and the eye-catching spring of Sarai with the north wind brings the peak of joy and happiness to the tourists.

The mountains of Manshet and the cool and pleasant shade of the star trees host tourists all year round who go there from all over to spend their moments sweetly. Undoubtedly, the incomparable beauty of Ivan, Dareh Shahr and Abdanan cities cannot be limited to a few sentences, because these areas are so beautiful and heartwarming and have pristine and ey e-catching areas that just being there tells all the truths of good. The creator is real. Asphalt access road, drinking water, health services, green spaces, places of pilgrimage, access to accommodation and reception units, and a stop are suitable facilities for the welfare of nature in these areas.

Khan Gonbad Cemetery is located 30 kilometers south-east of Ilam, on the slopes of one of the ridges of Shah Nakhjir Mountain, one of the sub-ranges of Kabir Kuh, and its length and width are approximately 350 meters each. This ridge is a combination of rock and soil, and graves are mostly seen on its top and slopes. The results of archaeologists' excavations in the area of ??this cemetery show that its works belong to the historical periods (2600-2500 BC) or (4500-4600 BC) . The ancient cemetery of Chavar Ilam is located in the Chavar section of Ilam city, where several ancient graves have been discovered. The age of the objects obtained from the graves of Chavar cemetery reaches 1200 years BC.

The thickness of the Surgah Formation in the Shah Nakhjir anticline is about 161 meters and consists mainly of green shales and olive green marly shales with intercalation of gray shaly limestones. The lower and upper boundaries of the Surgah Formation are the Sarvak and Ilam Formation, respectively and are conformable with sharp lithology and abundant iron nodules. Based on the planktonic foraminifera and identified biozones, the Surgah Formation has an age of Late Turonian to early Late Santonian. Comparison of biozones identified in this section with those of the type section in Tang-e- Garab shows that these two sections are similar in biozones and age, and the only difference is in thickness of biozones.




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