Their rendezvous was a flat, empty spot in the Dasht-e-Kavir salt desert, fifty-eight miles from Tabas, the nearest town.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert One Debacle] Reference

The area can be divided into two major units: the Dasht-e-Kavir in the north, a vast saline desert, and the Dasht-e-Lut in the south, largely a sand and gravel desert and one of the hottest deserts in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Central Persian desert basins] Reference

Only about 60 Asiatic cheetahs survive, all of them to the south of the Kopet Dagh in Iran’s Great Salt Desert, the Dasht-e-Kavir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in the Irano-Anatolian] Reference