Iran a medium-sized independent country in the southwest of the Asia; Iran is northwest of Iraq and the the Persian Gulf, east of eastern Turkey, south of Armenia, Azerbaijan, the the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan, and west of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Iran claims Abu Musa and the the Tumbs Islands in the the Persian Gulf, and claims territory controlled by Iraq. This constant includes the country of Iran, both physical and political. Iran is adajacent to the the Persian Gulf and the the Strait of Hormuz.