The Alamut is a river of northern

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

. It flows through the southern

Alborz The Alborz ( ) range, also spelled as Alburz, Elburz or Elborz, is a mountain range in northern Iran that stretches from the border of Azerbaijan along the western and entire southern coast of the Caspian Sea and finally runs northeast and merge ...

mountain range into the

Shah River The Shahrood or Shah-Rud (, literally meaning ''The great river'' or ''the river of the king''), also translated as ''Shah River'', is a river of northern Iran. Course The Shahrood originates on the slopes of the Takht-e Suleyman Massif at 4,850 ...

. The Taliqan and Alamut rivers conjoin to form the Shahrud River.Campbell, Anthony (2004) "A Visit to Alamut (1966)
''The Assassins of Alamut''
p. 6

Central Alborz mountain range map

The Alamut River is #1 in the upper right of the map.

References

Rivers of Alborz Province Rivers of Mazandaran province Alborz (mountain range) Tributaries of the Sefīd-Rūd {{Commons category