Shahab
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Shahab may refer to:
- a male given name in Arabic and also Persian, meaning meteor or shooting star, or a bright star that illuminates the heavens
- Shahab F.C., Iranian football club in Semnan
- a class of Iranian missiles (Service time of 1988–present; six variants):
- Shahab-1
- Shahab-2Shahab-2The Shahab-2 is the successor to the Iranian Shahab-1 missile.The missile has a CEP of 50 m. On November 2, 2006, Iran fired unarmed missiles to begin 10 days of military simulations. Iranian state television reported "dozens of missiles were fired including Shahab-2 and Shahab-3 missiles...
- Shahab-3Shahab-3The Shahab-3 is a medium-range ballistic missile developed by Iran and based on the Nodong-1. The Shahab-3 has a range of ; a MRBM variant can now reach...
- Shahab-4Shahab-4The Shahab-4 aka IRIS liquid propelled missile is an alleged, and possibly fictional, programme for Iran's first missile to bring satellites into orbit....
- Shahab-5Shahab-5Shahab-5 is an alleged Iranian long-range ballistic missile. The name Shahab is a class of Iranian missiles, with a service time of 1988 to present, which comes in six variants: Shahab-1, Shahab-2, Shahab-3, Shahab-4, Shahab-5, Shahab-6.-See also:...
- Shahab-6Shahab-6Shahab-6 is the designation of an alleged and possibly fictional Iranian long-range ballistic missile project alleged to exist by Israeli sources, and supposed to be an extension of the Shahab series of missiles, and first reported to the world by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1997....
- Shahab, the former name of Mayakovski, ArmeniaMayakovski, ArmeniaMayakovski is a town in the Kotayk Province of Armenia. The town was renamed in honor of the Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.- References :*Kiesling, Rediscoving Armenia, p. 58, available online at the * – World-Gazetteer.com...
- Shahab DistrictShahab DistrictShahab District is a district in Qeshm County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 30,112, in 6,319 families. The District has one city: Suza....
, an administrative subdivision of Iran