BSh) with extremely hot summers and mild winters. Frost does occasionally occur at night during winter, but winters in Shushtar have no snow. Rainfall is higher than most of southern Iran, but is almost exclusively confined to the period from November to April, though on occasions it can exceed per month or per year. Notable people Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody, anesthesiologist accused of taking his American wife Betty and their daughter Mahtob to Iran and allegedly keeping them hostage Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri, Twelver Shia cleric Mohammad-Ali Emam-Shooshtari, historian and religious scholar Sahl Shushtari, early classical Sufi mystic Qazi Nurullah Shustari, eminent Shia faqih (jurist) and scholar Nematollah Jazayeri, prominent Shia scholar Mohammad-Taqi Shoushtari, Iranian Twelver Shia scholar Sheikh Jafar Shooshtari, prominent Shia scholar See also Sahl al-Tustari, a medieval Islamic scholar and early Sufi mystic born in Shushtar Sheikh Jafar Shooshtari, a prominent Shia scholar Sohrab Gilani, the representative of Shushtar in Majles References Sources External links Visiting Shushtar Photo Essay Hamid-Reza Hosseini, Shush at the foot of Louvre (Shush dar dāman-e Louvre), in Persian, Jadid Online, 10 March 2009, شوش در دامن لوور.Audio slideshow: Untitled Document (6 min 31 sec). Pictures of Shushtar on Fotopedia. Picture of Shushtar Farsi Populated places in Shushtar County Cities in Khuzestan Province Archaeology of Iran Roman sites in Asia