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The city was occupied by the Soviets in 1979 but they too abandoned it after the 1988 Geneva Accords were signed. A civil war in the 1990s between various rebel groups destroyed much of the city, resulting in many casualties.
Azar Hekmat-Shoar, whose real name was Azar Taj Dehghani, was born in Tabriz in 1314 …