city, western Iran. A developing urban centre, the city has industries producing bricks, mosaics, milled rice, woven cloth, animal feed, candy, stockings and gloves, coarse carpets and rugs, and fruit juices. A road links the city with Borūjen. It has a telegraph station, a microwave-repeater station, and a thermoelectric-power plant. Pop. (2006) 131,612.