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Iranrud
Iranrud which means Iran's river was a plan to build a canal from Caspian sea to Indian Ocean. The Soviet Union, as having direct access to cold seas only, was very much eager to the realizition of this project because other ways to warm seas, the Strait of Istanbul and Dardanelles, were under the control of the NATO country Turkey.
There were two main ideas about this project:
- A river through Dasht-e Lut
- A river to lake Urmia and after that to Persian gulf