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	Encyclopedia: Khorramabad
		Khorramabad (or Khorram Abad) is the capital of Lorestan, a province in western Iran.
		Khorramabad, city in western Iran, located in the Zagros Mountains, and capital of the province of Lorestan.
		Khorramabad is a market center for the farm products of the region and an industrial center manufacturing synthetic fibers and processed foods.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Khorramabad (338 words)

	Lorestan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The center of the Lorestan Province is the city of Khorramabad.
		At Khorramabad, the average annual precipitation totals 530 millimetres (21 inches) of rainfall equivalent, whilst up to 1270 millimetres (50 inches) may fall on the highest mountains.
		Prior to the 20th century the majority of Lurs were nomadic herders, with an urban minority residing in the city of Khorramabad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lorestan (972 words)

	Khorramabad
		City in western Iran with 300,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), in a river gab in the Lorestan mountains.
		Khorramabad is the capital of Lorestan Province with 1.8 million inhabitants (2005 estimate) and an area of 28,392 km².
		Khorramabad has an active bazaar, and its major landmark is the Black Fortress, which was the seat of the governors of Lorestan between 1155 and 1600.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/khorramabad.htm (99 words)

	Khorramabad News
		At the Khorramabad Airport, Khatami was officially seen off by MPs for provincial cities, the provincial governor general and some senior managers of Lorestan.
		KHORRAMABAD, Lorestan Province â“ With the rice farming season approaching, some 6,000 hectares of paddies are being cultivated across the province.
		Meanwhile, Ghodratollah Imani, an MP from Khorramabad said that the plans for the impeachment of the Minister of Interior and the Minister of Education will be...
	news.daylightonline.com /2005-03/Khorramabad.html (1211 words)

	English Article
		But, archaeological researches on the man-made hills surrounding the city show that the historical Khorramabad was located in the south of the present city.
		Khorramabad is located 490 kilometers south of Tehran.
		The climate of Khorramabad welcomes visitors throughout the year especially in the summer when the temperature is moderate and the air fresh.
	www.e-resaneh.com /English/Children%20and%20youth/KHORRAMABAD%20Ancient%20Elamite%20Period%20City.htm (447 words)

	Nimrooz Newspaper
		The airliner of Iran Air Tours crashed in mountains as it was preparing to land at Khorramabad on an internal flight from Tehran.
		An official at the governor's office earlier said that the aircraft had crashed shortly after taking off on an internal flight from Khorramabad to Tehran, but the state news agency IRNA said it was arriving from the capital.
		Minutes before the crash the plane also lost radio contact with the Khorramabad airport where it was heading and efforts to reestablish contact were of no avail.
	www.nimrooz.com /html/674/14373.htm (206 words)

	Iranian Revolutionary Socialists’ League
		Third, during the Khorramabad events, as with Eslamshahr and the university students’ insurrection in July 1999, “centrifugal” forces (the “Third Front”) took shape and questioned the existence of the whole regime.
		The people of Khorramabad have rightly recognised that the policy of the Second of Khordad Front mean surrendering to the Velayat-e Faghih.
		It is time for the vanguard workers of Iran to support the insurrections of the people of Khorramabad and through forming strike committees prepare themselves for the overthrow of the regime.
	www.kargar.org /english/Commun8.htm (458 words)

	Description of Selected News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		TEHRAN — Managing director of the Bakhtar Regional Electricity Company, Falahatian said on Friday that executive operations to construct a 1000 megawatt gas power plant in Khorramabad, Lorestan Province, would be undertaken by the end of the current year.
		Falahatian added that the aforesaid power plant would be constructed by the private sector and in a period of four years.
		He also went on to say that a land area as large as 96 hectares has been purchased for constructing the gas power plant and that the Oil Ministry is scheduled to provide the necessary gas.
	www.tehrantimes.com /Description.asp?Da=12/31/2005&Cat=9&Num=5 (106 words)

	Iran News - Khorramabad oilfield exploration under review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		IRNA quoted the Persian-language daily Eqtesad-e Pouya as reporting that the NIOC has opened financial envelopes of Khorramabad tender and that the contract for exploration and development of the block will be signed within the next few months.
		The report quoted Hossein Roshandel, director for exploration blocks at the NIOC Department of Exploration Affairs, as saying that the company is also negotiating with the bidders for exploration and development tenders of three more blocks--Kouhdasht, Garmsar and Raz.
		The official further announced that the NIOC has defined 12 oil blocks in sedimentary regions of the country and that it would soon hold an international tender for simultaneous exploration and development as well.
	iranmania.com /News/ArticleView?NewsCode=32135&NewsKind=Current+Affairs (372 words)

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		The plane, belonging to Iran Air Tours, an affiliate of the state carrier Iran Air, was flying from Tehran to Khorramabad when it disappeared off radar screens southwest of the city.
		The Russian-built Tupolev-154, belonging to Iran Air Tours, an affiliate of the state carrier Iran Air, was flying from the capital Tehran to Khorramabad when it disappeared off radar screens southwest of the city early on Tuesday.
		Khorramabad lies to the east of the Zagros mountain range running along the border with Iraq.
	www.grangier.fr /news/journal-2002-02-13.txt (3748 words)

	RFE/RL Iran Report
		Then Khorramabad parliamentary representative Seyyed Issa Musavinejad faced four hours of questioning, "Hambastegi" reported on 15 January, and was released on 200 million rials bail.
		Mohammad Kazemi, who was the deputy head of the parliamentary investigation into the Khorramabad unrest, had told IRNA two months earlier that "preliminary investigations" did not warrant Tajzadeh's appearing in court.
		The parliamentary investigation was the last one, and its report was reproduced in the 17 November "Aftab-i Yazd." The report's findings on the course of events in Khorramabad were almost identical to those of the earlier reports, but its apportionment of blame and responsibility appeared to be the most even-handed.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iran/2001/4-290101.html (4077 words)

	Brief on Iran, No. 1148
		Following the brutal suppression of a protest by inmates in Khorramabad's Qal'eh (Falak-ol Aflak) Prison (western Iranian province of Lorestan) on Thursday, May 13, the families of the 16 prisoners who are on the death row have staged a series of protests every day in front of the prison.
		In another development yesterday, the students at Khorramabad University held a rally to protest the murder of a prisoner during the riots.
		At the same time, the Revolutionary Court closed a daily run by his daughter, the MP Faezeh Hashemi, for alleged anti-Islamic activity, leaving the publisher to point helplessly at the past revolutionary contributions of the Rafsanjani family.
	www.iran-e-azad.org /english/boi/11480519_99.html (652 words)

	Iran News - Mild quake jolts Khorramabad suburb in Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Iran News - Mild quake jolts Khorramabad suburb in Iran
		LONDON, Jan 15 (IranMania) - A mild earthquake jolted the outskirts of Khorramabad city in the western province of Lorestan Saturday morning.
		According to IRNA, it was measuring 3.4 on the open-ended Richter scale.
	iranmania.com /News/ArticleView?NewsCode=28719&NewsKind=Current+Affairs (220 words)

	Unusual bronze coffin unearthed in Lorestan
		The items have been sent to the historical Falakolaflak Castle in Khorramabad for further study, and the team hopes to find other ancient artifacts at the site.
		This was the first discovery in Iran of a body buried with a golden blindfold and gag.
		The U-shaped coffin contained a large, inscribed golden ring, 98 bracteate coins, a dagger, some textile fragments, and a silver rod, which came from the treasury of the Elamite king Kidin-Hutran.
	www.mehrnews.com /en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=183822 (413 words)

	Guardian \| 117 feared dead in Iranian plane crash
		No details on the number injured or killed were immediately available, nor was there information on the cause of the crash.
		An official at the Khorramabad governor's office said rescue teams had identified the mountainous, snow-covered area of the crash.
		Residents of a village near Khorramabad heard a "big explosion" and fire after the Tupolev went down, the radio report said.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4354481-111322,00.html (354 words)

	Khorrambad Silo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Khorramabad silo, like Gonbad-e Kavoos silo, was built in a place where, due to bad quality of the soil the need for thorough foundation work seemed inevitable.
		Therefore after the start of the project in the winter of 1994 and before the beginning of the construction operations the site was excavated to the depth of 10m and the soil was replaced with suitable soil.
		This project, which was started with the planning and consult of Sazeh Pardazi Co., was completed in 2000.
	www.tosee-siloha.com /projects/silos/khorramabad.html (82 words)

	All 118 aboard believed killed in Iranian jet crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		KHORRAMABAD, Iran (AP) — An Iranian passenger jet crashed Tuesday in the mountains of western Iran amid snow and rain, and all 118 passengers and crew on board were believed dead, an official said.
		The cause of the crash of the Iran Air Tours flight from Tehran to Khorramambad, about 230 miles to the southwest, wasn't known, though it had been raining and snowing in the mountains at the time of the crash.
		The plane lost contact with the control tower at Khorramabad airport moments before it crashed at 7:55 a.m., 15 miles west of Khorramabad, state-run Iranian television said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/02/12/iran-crash.htm (715 words)

	Brief on Iran, No. 1103 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The mullahs' anti-human regime executed 18 Mojahedin supporters in the prison of Khorramabad (western Lorestan province), last week, reports from Iran say.
		One those executed, Mohammad Sayyahi, aged 19, was arrested 40 days ago along with a group of youngsters in the city of Ahwaz (southwest Iran) by Intelligence Ministry agents.
		Mohammad and 17 of those arrested were transferred to Khorramabad and put under torture.
	www.iran-e-azad.org /english/boi/11030317_99.html (678 words)

	Lorestan (English)
		In another words, the further one gets from Khorramabad on the west, center and south, the fewer its historical sites.
		The area has been of commercial importance during the Islamic era and land routes traversed to the northern and southern part of it.
		Many geographers believe that perhaps present-day Khorramabad had been located in the vicinity of ancient Shapurkhast.
	www.farhangsara.com /lorestan.htm (293 words)

	Quake shakes Khorramabad suburb in western Iran again
		Tehran, Jan 15, IRNA -- An earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale for the second time jolted the outskirts of Khorramabad city in the western province of Lorestan on Saturday evening.
		Earlier, a mild earthquake measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale hit the outskirts of Khorramabad in the morning.
		Two other earthquakes jolted Khorramabad's suburbs on Thursday morning and afternoon each with a magnitude of 4.2 and 4.1 on the Richter scale, respectively.
	www.payvand.com /news/05/jan/1140.html (168 words)

	News update on Dr Soroush
		A group of people gathered at the Khorramabad Airport, preventing the two from leaving the airport.
		Khorramabad's Governor General's Office, also in a statement, termed the gathering as illegal and said those who resort to such illogical and violent acts to impose their ideas on others are rejected by the nation.
		The statement noted that the noble people of Khorramabad had nothing to do with the incident and are, in fact, opposed to such acts, adding that the identity of these individuals who care little about tranquillity and security is known to everyone.
	www.seraj.org /news.htm (6358 words)

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	www.khorramabad.pw (359 words)

	NCRI Statement 05/18/99a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The order to open fire and crack down on protesting prisoners in Khorramabad (the provincial capital of Loresten in western Iran) came directly from Mohammad Khatami's office and the Interior Minister Abdolvahed Moussavi-Lari, according to a confidential report from within the Iranian regime's Interior Ministry.
		A number of inmates in Khorramabad's prison, staged a protest on Thursday, May 13, to appalling conditions in the prison and intolerable pressures on the prisoners, taking hostage mullah Mohammad Keshvari, the prison's prayer leader, and a number of prison Guards.
		The clerical regime's heinous crime in Khorramabad's prison demonstrates that Khatami's rhetoric about "rule of law" and "civil society" is completely hollow.
	www.iran-e-azad.org /english/ncr/990518a.html (347 words)

	Khorramabad, Iran, Pictures
		The city is home to the Black Fortress, the ruins of a fort-palace complex built between the mid-12th and 15th centuries and used as the official residence of Lorestan's governors for more than 400 years.
		The city also suffered aerial bombardment and missile attacks during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988).
		This photo is from Azadi Square (Freedom Square) which is located in West part of Tehran.
	www.greatestcities.com /Middle_East/Iran/Khorramabad_city.html (270 words)

	Successive quakes damage houses in city of Khorramabad in western Iran
		Successive quakes damage houses in city of Khorramabad in western Iran
		Khorramabad, Nov 22, IRNA -- Successive earthquakes have incurred property damage in several villages in the western city of Khorramabad in the Lorestan province, but there is no report yet on probable casualties, the provincial governor said Monday.
		Speaking to IRNA, Gov. Ebrahim Alipourian stated that at least six tremors have rocked the region in succession since overnight, damaging houses in Jolgeh Khalaj, Afrineh, Ma'moulan and several other villages.
	www.payvand.com /news/04/nov/1189.html (358 words)

	Renewed clashes between demonstrators and security forces in Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The annual conference of the biggest Iranian student organisation, scheduled for August 25 in the city of Khorramabad, triggered violent street battles between demonstrators and government security forces.
		The Islamic Participation Front, which is led by Khatami's brother and represents the largest faction of “reformers” within the Iranian parliament, issued a statement the following Sunday repeating their usual appeals for “calm and order”.
		The declaration said: “The events taking place in Khorramabad have shown that, contrary to the claims made by the opponents of reform, the government does not have sufficient instruments at hand to guarantee security in accordance with its tasks.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/sep2000/iran-s08.shtml (1334 words)

	Fate of 105 passengers unknown after Iran plane disappears
		He said the plane, flying from Tehran to Khorramabad early on Tuesday, disappeared off radar screens southwest of the city.
		State radio reported villagers in the mountainous Yaft-e Kouh area were startled by a loud explosion early in the morning.
		The runway at Khorramabad airport is too small to accommodate wide-bodied aircraft, the official said.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/626302/posts (819 words)

	NCRI Statement 05/15/99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Revolt in Khorramabad prison leads to death of a mullah, a Guard and a prisoner
		In protest to the appalling and intolerable conditions of prisons, on Thursday, May 13, a number of prisoners in Khorramabad's prison (capital of the western Iranian province of Lorestan), rioted, disarmed a number of prison Guards and took a mullah, Mohammad Keshvari, and several Revolutionary Guards hostage.
		The Iranian Resistance draws the attention of the United Nations Secretary General, the Human Rights Commission and other UN organs to the savage suppression of prisoners in Khorramabad prison and their imminent execution.
	www.iran-e-azad.org /english/ncr/990515.html (348 words)

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