Darabad (in Persian: دارآباد) is a quarter of Tehran, the capital city of Iran. Map of Iran and surrounding lands, showing location of Tehran The towering Alborz mountains rising above modern Elahiyeh district and its green neighborhoods. ...

Darabad is a former village on the slopes of Alborz mountain range to the northeast of Tehran which has attached to the Greater Tehran Area as a result of rapid expansion of the Tehran city. Darabad today is home to Iran's most famous museums for natural history called the Nature and Wildlife Museum of Iran. Many people use Darabad as the starting point for hiking the southern slpoes of Alborz, especially in the summer. Alborz Mountains underneath clouds seen from Tehran Alborz (in Persian البرز), also written as Alburz or Elburz, is a mountain range in northern Iran, stretching from the borders of Armenia in the north-west to the southern end of the Caspian Sea, where also Tehran and Irans highest peak, Damavand...