Assessment of Vulnerable Locations Against Terrorist Attacks in Metropolises, Case Study: Shiraz Metropolis

Terrorism and terrorist attacks is one of the biggest challenges in the 21st century. Each year، thousands of people around the world lose their lives due to terrorist attacks. Cities and metropolises are one of the foremost spaces to organize and carry out terrorist attacks. In fact، today the vast majority of terrorist attacks are happening in big cities so that terrorism can be considered a primarily urban phenomenon. Iran and its big cities are exposed to terrorist attacks due to the characteristics of the regional and the existence of terrorist groups in conflict with the Islamic Republic of Iran. There are a number of potentially vulnerable sites against terrorist attacks in Shiraz metropolis such as vital infrastructure، public places and centers of political power. In this paper have been used analytical descriptive method and documentary and inductive approach. In this paper، we first examine the locations of terrorist attacks in large cities in the world، and then have been analyzed the most important locations at risk of terrorist attacks (conventional and non-conventional) in nine municipality zones of Shiraz. The results of this study show that zones 1، 2 and 8 in Shiraz are most important and vulnerable zones against terrorist attacks، due to physical characteristics، population concentration and multiplicity of infrastructures.