World History Moment: Great Iranian Blizzard
World History Moment: Great Iranian Blizzard
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Historian John Schmidt tells us the story of how one of the driest and warmest countries on earth got covered in snow.
By early 1972, Iran had been going through a four-year-long drought. Then, on February 3, the drought ended—but not in the way anyone expected.