Communication **

General **
There are many communications poeple can make in Iran. The government of Iran runs the broadcast media, which inbludes 3 national radio stations and two national television networks, as well as dozens of local radio and television stations. In the year 2000, there were 252 radios and 158 television sets in use for evert 1,000 residents. There were 219 telephone lines and 110 personal computers for every 1000 residents. Computers for home use became more affordable in the mid- 1990s and since then demand for access to the Internet has increased.

In 2006, the Iranian telecom industy's revenues were estimated at $1.2 trillion or approxamately 3 percent of the gross world product.

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Telephone

Cell Phone

Radio
** Radio broadcast stations: AM 72, FM 5, shortwave 5 (1998)
** Number of Radios: 22 million (2005)

Television
** Television broadcast stationsL 28 (plus 450 low-power repeaters) (1997)
** Number of Televisions: 15 million (2007 est.)

Internet (Google homepage (www.google.com))
The internet is being used in Iran more and more. The Internet has become an expanding means to accessing information and self-expression among the younger population. Iran is also the world's fourth largest country of bloggers.
** Internet Service Providers (ISPs): numerous (2002)
** Country code (Top-level domain): IR
** Internet users: 17 million (2006)

Deserts in Iran **

Dasht-e-Kavir Desert, Iran **

General**
Iran is situated in a high-altitude plateau surrounded by connected ranges of mountains. The well-known deserts of Iran are at two major regions, Dasht-e-Kavir and Kavir-e-Lut. They are both some of the most arid and maybe hottest areas of their kinds in the world. 

The Desert Pits**
Dasht-e-Kavir is a geological pit almost at the north of Kavir-e-Lut. The minimum altitude of this desert is 400 m ASL. The major part of Dasht-e-Kavir is covered by sand and pebbles and exposed to strong winds and storms that set salt-combined sand in motion like sea waves. At times, this phenomenon forms long sand hills of 40m high.
From structural point of view, Dasht-e-Kavir is very much different form Kavir-e-Lut. The difference of temperature between days and nights during a year in Dasht-e-Kavir is between 0 and 70 degrees C.

Kavir-e-Lut is the largest pit inside the Iranian plateau and probably one of the largest ones in the world. Kavir-e-Lut is a pit formed by broken layers of the earth.
The maximum annual rainfall is approximately 100 mm there. The average altitude of this desert is almost 600 m above sea level (ASL) and the lowest point near "khabis" is almost 300m ASL. In Kavir-e-Lut, large amount of sand is always moving southward forming sand hills and running sand masses.

Kavir-e-Lut Desert, Iran **