Semnan is adjacent to Damghan Shahroud cities from the east, to Darjezin, Mahdishahr and Shahmirzad from the north and to Sorkheh from the west. Its distance to Tehran is 216 km and it is connected to the Tehran-Mashhad national railway and has two airports. Semnan is the most populous ...
But the black flag isn’t a call for war, and neither the flag’s text nor the shrine’s statement about the banner references the coming of the Mahdi or the end of time. In fact, an announcement on the shrine’s English-language Facebook page on Oct. 17 specifically describes ...