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The earthquake of last year, near Sarpol-e Zahab, a Kurdish-majority city, had a magnitude of 7.3 and injured more than 9,000 people. The region, nestled in the Zagros Mountains, largely rebuilt in recent decades after the ruin of Iran and the war in Iraq in the 1980s, has seen many buildings collapse or suffer damage during the earthquake of 2017.
