[redgolum]

True, but Afghanistan (albeit with out help) sure put a long and ugly hurtin on Russia...

Partisan war is ugly. Funny thing is one of the reasons Russia lost, was that they no longer did the "slash and burn" tactics.

[bwteim]

FYI

From the previously posted
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east.html
collection

and then a subcollection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/iran.html

there is a great jpeg that has in it a a series of maps on Iran and factoids;

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/iran_country_profile_2004.jpg

It's a large image - so scroll around after you get it to load. You may want to save it to your desktop.