Iran, a Global Transportation Hub

Iran’s location at the East-West crossroads was the reason behind the incursions of tribes and attacks on its civilizational and cultural achievements. 
Building up walls, diplomacy, swearing allegiance, digging ditches and construction of castles could do little to protect the country, university professor Rouhollah Eslami prefaced his write-up for the Persian economic daily Donya-e-Eqtesad with this note. 
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