More like the Arabian plate is still showing it's moving north into the Eurasian plate, like it has been for the last 35 million years, long before there were Muslims in Iran, or people at all.
Oh, for goodness sake! Why interject logic and scientific reasoning into a perfectly good religious chest pounding?!? Between the zealots and the tin foil crowd who believe HAARP causes everything, you're raining on a lot of parades!