Iran inaugurates over 200
projects in nomadic areas in ‘Government Week’

On the occasion of
Government Week (August 24-30), hundreds of development projects in different
sectors including water and agriculture are set to go operational across Iran,
including 210 projects in nomadic areas.

210 projects- valued at
2,200 trillion rials- in nomadic areas are among the projects scheduled by the
Agriculture Ministry to be inaugurated across the country in the mentioned
week.

Water transfer projects,
construction of nomadic refuge projects, and road construction projects are
among the projects.

There are about one and a
half million Nomads in modern Iran, extending from the border of Turkistan to
the warm waters of the Persian Gulf. Most of these tribes, the Kurds, the Lurs,
the Bakhtiaris, the Guilaks (on the Caspian Coast), the Baluchis, are the
original invaders who, in the first millennium BC, swept down from Central Asia
and settled in various parts of the Iranian Plateau.

Most the tribes of central
Iran are from pure Aryan stock, while other tribes such as the Arabs of
Khuzestan and Khorasan, the Turkish tribes of Quchan, the Qashqai tribes, the
Shahsevan and Afshar tribes of Azarbaijan and the Turkmans are remnants of
races that have passed through Iran at various periods of history.

Iranian nomads live in
Fars, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Khuzestan, Isfahan, and some other provinces.
They usually change between their winter quarters in steppes (Qishlaq or warmer
areas) and summer quarters in green mountainous regions (Yeylaq or cooler
countryside).