This is a list of the rivers wholly or partly in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

, arranged geographically by

river basin A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, t ...

from west to east.

Flowing into the
Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia. The bod ...

Arvand Rud The Shatt al-Arab ( ar, شط العرب, lit=River of the Arabs; fa, اروندرود, Arvand Rud, lit=Swift River) is a river of some in length that is formed at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the town of al-Qurnah in ...

Haffar During the early Islamic centuries, the Daylamite Buwayhid king, Panah Khusraw Adud ad-Dawlah, ordered the digging of a canal to join the Karun River, which at the time emptied independently into the Persian Gulf through the Bahmanshir channe ...

, originally an artificial channel now forming the estuary of the Karun **

Karun The Karun ( fa, کارون, ) is the Iranian river with the highest water flow, and its only navigable river. It is long. It rises in the Zard Kuh mountains of the Bakhtiari district in the Zagros Range, receiving many tributaries, such as t ...

River *** Marun River ***

Dez River The Dez River ( fa, دز), the ancient Coprates (;James Knowles (1835) ''A Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language'' el, Κοπράτης or Κοπράτας), is a tributary of the Karun River and is 400 km long. It ...

**** Bakhtiari River **** Koohrang **''Tigris (Iraq)'' ***

Karkheh River The Karkheh or Karkhen کرخه (perhaps the river known as the Gihon—one of the four rivers of Eden/Paradise to the Bible and as the Choaspes in ancient times; also called Eulæus; Hebrew: אולי Ulai) is a river in Khūzestān Province, I ...

**** Seimareh River ***Chankula River ***

Sirwan River Sirwan may refer to: * Sirwan River / Diyala River *Sirwan, Iran Siravand ( fa, سيراوند, also Romanized as Sīrāvand; also known as Sīrāvan and Sirwān) is a village in Darbandrud Rural District, in the Central District of Asadabad ...

(Diyala River) **** Alwand River *** Little Zab *

Bahmanshir The Bahmanshir channel ( fa, بهمن‌شیر, ) is a secondary estuary of the Karun River that parallels the Shatt al-Arab/Arvand Rud waterway on the far side of the Abadan Island, Iran, for 70 miles before emptying into the Persian Gulf. The ...

, the original mouth of the Karun * Jarahi * Zohreh River * Helleh River *

Mond River The Mond River ( fa, رودخانه مند), also known in English as the Mand River, runs through Fars Province and Bushehr Province in south-western Iran, flowing to the Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=x ...

Shur River The Shur River is a river in southern Iran that flows into the Gulf of Oman in Hormozgan. The river flows through the arid Lut desert A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditio ...

Mehran River The Mehran River ( fa, رودخانه مهران) is a river in Hormozgan Province in the south of Iran. It rises in the south of Fars Province, and flows through the towns of Jenah and Kookherd in Hormozgan Province. It terminates in a delta ...

Kul River Kul or KUL may refer to: Airports * KUL, current IATA code for Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia * KUL, former IATA code for Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport (Subang Airport), Malaysia Populated places * Kul, Iran, a village in Kurdistan ...

**Gowdeh River **Rostam River

Flowing into the Gulf of Oman

* Dozdan River *

Jagin River Jagin-e Bala ( fa, جگين بالا, also Romanized as Jagīn-e Bālā; also known as Jagin) is a village in Gabrik Rural District, in the Central District of Jask County, Hormozgan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Repub ...

Gabrik River The Gabrik River is a river in southern Iran that flows into the Gulf of Oman The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman ( ar, خليج عمان ''khalīj ʿumān''; fa, دریای عمان ''daryâ-ye omân''), also known as Gulf of Makran or Sea of ...

Bahu Kalat River The Bahu Kalat River ( fa, رودخانه باهوکلات), also known as Bahu River, Dashtiari River and Silup River, is a river in the Sistan va Baluchistan province in Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and a ...

(or Dashtiari River or Silup River)

Flowing into
endorheic basin An endorheic basin (; also spelled endoreic basin or endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but drainage converges instead into lakes ...
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Lake Urmia Lake Urmia; az, اۇرمۇ گؤلۆ, script=Arab, italic=no, Urmu gölü; ku, گۆلائوو رمیەیێ, Gola Ûrmiyeyê; hy, Ուրմիա լիճ, Urmia lich; arc, ܝܡܬܐ ܕܐܘܪܡܝܐ is an endorheic salt lake in Iran. The lake is l ...

Aji Chay Aji or AJI may refer to: Location * Aji (town), Tieling County, Liaoning, China *Aji Island, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan *Aji, Kagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan * Aji River (disambiguation), rivers with the same name Other * Aji (Go), a latent t ...

Quri Chay The Quri River or Quru Chay or Quri Chay ( fa, قورو چای; az, Quru Çay قورو چای) is a river in East Azerbaijan province of Iran. It arises in the mountains east of Tabriz and joins the Aji Chay just northeast of central Tabriz ...

* Zarrineh River *

Gadar River The Gadar River rises in the Iranian Zagros Mountains near the point where the borders of Iran, Turkey and Iraq meet. From its source, the river first flows towards the southeast and then changes course due east through the Ushnu- Solduz valley. ...

* Ghaie River *

Alamlou River Alamlou River is an endorheic river in northern Iran, that flows into the south end of Lake Urmia. It should not be confused with the Alamut River The Alamut River is a river of northern Iran. It flows through the southern Alborz mountain ra ...

* Leylan River * Simineh River * Mahabad River *

Barandouz River The Baranduz River is a river in north west Iran which flows into the saltwater Lake Urmia. It is named after the village of Baran Duz. After the building of the Baranduz Dam, the flow of the river was greatly reduced, contributing to the severe ...

Shahar River The Shahar River, also known as ''Shahar Chay'' (City River) (Persian: شهرچایی, Kurdish: بەردە سوور, ) is a river in the Zagros Mountains of northwestern Iran.URMIYA in :The Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI2) The river rises in the Zagro ...

* Nazlou River * Rozeh River * Zola River

Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia; east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia ...

*''Kura River (Azerbaijan)'' **

Aras River , az, Araz, fa, ارس, tr, Aras The Aras (also known as the Araks, Arax, Araxes, or Araz) is a river in the Caucasus. It rises in eastern Turkey and flows along the borders between Turkey and Armenia, between Turkey and the Nakhchivan excl ...

***Balha River ****Tulun River ***

Zangmar River The Zangmar River (also known as the Ṭłmut River) is a river in Maku County, West Azarbaijan Province, Iran. It originates in the Zagros Mountains above Maku, Iran along the Iran–Turkey border, not far from Mount Ararat and flows south and ...

****Barun River *

Sefīd-Rūd The Sefid-Rud ( fa, سفیدرود, lit=white river, glk, اسپي بيه, ''Espī bīeh'') (also known as Sepid-Rud) is a river approximately long, rising in the Alborz mountain range of northwestern Iran and flowing generally northeast to e ...

** Qizil Üzan ** Shahrood *** Alamut River * Cheshmeh Kileh River ** Do Hezar River ** Se Hazar River * Chaloos River ** Sardab River * Kojoor River * Haraz River ** Noor River **

Lar River Lar River is a river of northern Iran, in the province of Mazandaran. It flows through the Alborz The Alborz ( fa, البرز) range, also spelled as Alburz, Elburz or Elborz, is a mountain range in northern Iran that stretches from the borde ...

Atrek River The Atrek ( fa, اترک, ku, Etrek, tk, Etrek derýasy), also known as the Attruck, Atrak, and Etrek, is a fast-moving river which begins in the mountains of north-eastern Iran (), and flows westward draining into the south-eastern corner of ...

** Sumbar River * Gharasu River

Namak Lake

* Abhar River * Qom River *

Jajrood River The Jajrud (Jājrūd), also spelled as Jajrood, Djadjéroud or Djaderoud, is a river in northern Iran that passes through the provinces of Mazandaran and Tehran. It flows south through the central Alborz mountain range. It is a tributary of the ...

* Karaj River

Gavkhouni

* Zayande River

Hamun-e Jaz Murian Hamun-e Jaz Murian ( fa, هامون جازموریان) is an inland basin or depression in southeast Iran, straddling the provinces of Kerman and Sistan and Baluchistan. The area of Hamoon and Jazmourian basin stretches to 69,600 square kilom ...

* Halil River * Bampur River

Sistan Basin The Sistan Basin is an inland endorheic basin encompassing large parts of southwestern Afghanistan and minor parts of southeastern Iran, one of the driest regions in the world and an area subjected to prolonged droughts. Its watershed is a syst ...

Helmand River The Helmand River (also spelled Helmend, or Helmund, Hirmand; Pashto/ Persian: ; Greek: ' (''Etýmandros''); Latin: ') is the longest river in Afghanistan and the primary watershed for the endorheic Sistan Basin. It emerges in the Sanglak ...

Hamun-i-Mashkel

*Mashkid River (Mashkel River)

Karakum Desert The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara-Gum ( tk, Garagum, ; rus, Караку́мы, Karakumy, kərɐˈkumɨ), is a desert in Central Asia. Its name in Turkic languages means "black sand": "" means sand; "" is a contraction of : " ...

* Harirud ** Kashaf River

Other

* Shesh Taraz

External links

Inventory of Shared Water Resources in Western Asia
- waterinventory.org
Water Resources and Quality in Iran
- fanack.com

Rivers {{Rivers of Iran

Flowing into the Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia. The bod ...