Zulfakar

Zulfakar

 

(also Zulfaqar), a gorge in the valley of the Hari Rud (Tedzhen), in the northern outlying mountains of the Iranian upland. The Zulfakar gorge separates the Turkmen-Khurasan Mountains from the Paropamisus Mountains. It is approximately 14 km long; contact is made through the gorge between the southern part of the Turkmen SSR and the border regions of Iran and Afghanistan.