On Monday, Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim pledged to support victims of the strong 7.3-magnitude earthquake which hit the Iran-Iraq border on Sunday.

Also, a number of world states, including, Egypt, Russia and Pakistan condoled victims of Iran-Iraq powerful earthquake.

Iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world, being crossed by several major fault lines that cover at least 90 percent of the country. As a result, destructive earthquakes in Iran occur constantly.

The deadliest quake in Iran's modern history happened in June 1990. It destroyed the northern cities of Rudbar, Manjil, and Lushan, along with hundreds of villages, killing about 37,000 people.

An earthquake in the southeastern city of Bam in December 2003 killed 26,000 people.

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