Sometimes they are forced to skirt the concrete machine gun emplacements of Iranian border guards, at others they have to wade across freezing mountain streams or negotiate sheer precipices.
有时，他们被迫绕过伊朗边防军的混凝土机枪阵地，有时，他们不得不趟过寒冷的山涧溪流或绕过峻峭的悬崖。
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It turns out that mountainous terrain and civil war had protected the region from the notoriously machine gun and mountain climbing averse scientifc community.