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“[Iranian] Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Jafari [said] that the rebuilding carried out in Iran’s border areas which were destroyed during the deadly war with Iraq in the 1980s had prevented a lot of casualties,” Najmeh Bozorgmehr and Monavar Khalaj write for the Financial Times.
“After [Iran’s 2012] quake, the United States, which does not maintain normal diplomatic relations with Iran, sent several planeloads of aid,” Thomas Erdbrink writes for the New York Times.
“The big driver here is the clash between the Arabia and Eurasia tectonic plates. The former is pushing north by a couple of centimeters a year,” Jonathan Amos writes for the BBC.
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