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	Khorramshahr
		Town in southwestern Iran with about 150,000 inhabtants (2005 estimate) on the west bank of the Karun River, where it enters the Shatt El Arab, close to the border to Iraq.
		The economy of Khorramshahr is still largely affected by the destruction and depopulation of the city in the 1980's during the first years of the.
		The main activities are however the same as before the war, petroleum production and some exports and imports through the city port.
	i-cias.com /e.o/khorramshahr.htm (205 words)

	Khorramshahr, Iran, Pictures
		Khorramshahr, city in southwestern Iran, located at the junction of the Karun and Shatt al Arab rivers, on the border between Iran and Iraq.
		Khorramshahr's importance in the 20th century stemmed from its nearness to Abadan, which is situated on a nearby river island and was home to the world's largest oil refinery at one time.
		Khorramshahr was captured by Iraq during the opening weeks of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), and occupied until 1982.
	www.greatestcities.com /Middle_East/Iran/Khorramshahr_city.html (281 words)

	Khorramshahr
		Khorramshahr city is situated in Khuzestan Prov., SW Iran, at the confluence of the Karun River and the Shatt al Arab, near the Persian Gulf.
		The praising of the liberation anniversary of Khorramshahr means praising the sacred defense in general, the bloods shed and war veterans, former POWs, the army, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and Basij (volunteer forces).
		Khorramshahr, Land of the Brave and the Free
	www.irib.ir /occasions/khoramshar/khoramsharEN.HTM (362 words)

	The MOUT Homepage
		Khorramshahr was the gateway to the oil terminal at Abadan and the whole of the Shatt Al-Arab waterway.
		The difference is that in Khorramshahr the city core and suburban areas are on the same side of the Shatt Al-Arab waterway and not separated as in Hue.
		If these are modeled along the lines of the Battle of Khorramshahr, armor dominance in the urban setting translates to a four to sevenfold increase in the application of combat power in the close fight.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/6453/twocities.html (1826 words)

	Iran Daily
		At present, up to 70 percent of people of Khorramshahr are covered by Imam Khomeini Relief Committee, while the unemployment rate in the city stands at 27 percent, among the highest in the country.
		According to Soltanpour, to describe how bad the situation is in Khorramshahr, it suffices to say that between 1997-2000, 4,500 children did not attend school for lack of basic necessities such as proper clothing and shoes.
		Reza Shamasi, a native of Khorramshahr who now lives in Ahvaz says improper lifestyles prevalent in small towns and villages, and an atmosphere of distrust between the people and the system besides the often unwelcome reception given to visiting state officials, seem to have undermined efforts to pay attention to Ahvaz.
	www.iran-daily.com /1383/2207/html/focus.htm (1756 words)

	Chapter XVIII: Port Operations
		Among these, the office of director of ports was placed under the commander of Basra District, and the ports of Khorramshahr and Bandar Shahpur were administratively responsible to him, though their troops and administrative officers and men, as members of the port battalions and of 9th Port, came under the director of ports.
		The port commander at Khorramshahr was therefore told that of the 500 cars standing in his yards, 250 must be dispatched by the end of May. A further tightening of organizational structure occurred when on 29 May railway terminal operations at Khorramshahr passed from MRS to the port commander.
		The mission of Khorramshahr as a Russian-aid port was formally declared terminated as of 1 June 1945.76 During the months that followed the port's main job was evacuation of American equipment and troops.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/persian/chapter18.htm (11806 words)

	Iraqi bandits attack Iranian cargo ship
		Khorramshahr, Khuzestan Prov, April 17, IRNA -- An Iranian cargo ship was attacked by Iraqi armed bandits in Arvandroud River Friday evening.
		Hormoz 24, belonging to Valfajr-8 Shipping Company, was sailing from Dubai to Khorramshahr port when it came under fire from Iraqi pirates and one of its Iranian crew was wounded.
		Head of the company`s branch in Khorramshahr, Abdolnabi Nassouri, told IRNA here Saturday although the ship`s equipment was partly damaged the Iraqi bandits could not stop the Iranian ship.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iran/2004/iran-040417-irna01.htm (157 words)

	Iraq calls for expansion of ties with Iran
		Khorramshahr, Khuzestan Prov, Sept 28, IRNA-Iraqi Ambassaor to Tehran Mohammad Sheikh on Wednesday called for expansion of current ties with Iran.
		He said the setting up of an Iraqi consulate in Khorramshahr was a step toward expansion of bilateral ties and expressed hope friendly ties would be further promoted.
		Shifting to the current situation in Iraq and lack of security for investment and trade in the country, the ambassador said the security situation is improving in Iraq and that southern Iraqi cities enjoy a 90 percent security.
	www.payvand.com /news/05/sep/1242.html (202 words)

	Iran Transportation - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		Khorramshahr handled trade primarily for the private sector, and Bandar-e Shahpur handled imports for the governments.
		As a result of war damage, the ports of Abadan and Khorramshahr were closed in 1980, leaving the other four main ports and twelve minor ports in operation.
		The construction of fourteen jetties along the Gulf coast was planned in 1986; one of these, at Jask near the Strait of Hormuz, opened in February 1986.
	www.photius.com /countries/iran/economy/iran_economy_transportation.html (930 words)

	Search Results for Khorramshahr - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Arab sheikh (ruler) of the city of Mohammerah (now Khorramshahr) who attempted to create an independent state in the oil-rich Iranian region of Khuzestan.
		Ahvaz is situated on both banks of the Karun River where it crosses a low range of sandstone hills.
		The Tigris, rising in Lake Hazar (a small mountain lake southeast of Elazig) and fed by a number of small tributaries, drains a wide area of eastern Turkey.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Khorramshahr&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (283 words)

	AllRefer.com - Khorramshahr, Iran (Iranian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Its development dates to the late 19th cent., when steam navigation on the Karun was started.
		The city was known as Muhammerah until the mid-1920s, when Reza Shah took it out of the hands of a semi-independent local sheikh and placed it under the control of the central government as Khorramshahr.
		It was severely attacked and partially destroyed during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Khorrams.html (201 words)

	Gallery II: Bandar Shahpur - World War II - Persian Gulf Command
		This picture shows the British tents in which the troops were billeted when they arrived at Khorramshahr.
		This must have been Khorramshahr because there was no city locale at Bandar Shahpur.
		Khorramshahr was larger than Bandar and had road connections.
	www.parstimes.com /travel/iran/bandar_shahpur_gallery2.html (544 words)

	TIME Europe \| Please Tell the President \| 6/05/2000 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He is travelling to Khorramshahr, located in one of the hottest and dustiest corners of Iran, to attend a ceremony commemorating the city's recapture by Iran during the country's 1980-88 war with Iraq.
		Veterans of the war with Iraq, as well as the Basij, the volunteer Islamic militia, are suspicious of the President's drive toward modernization and his call for a "dialogue of civilizations" with the West.
		Partitioned in a separate section of the crowd, the women of Khorramshahr — both young and old, swathed in fl chador and melting in the heat — strain against the fence that holds them back.
	www.time.com /time/europe/webonly/mideast/2000/06/iran1.html (1327 words)

	Chapter XIV: The Army Takes Over the TAP's
		At Khorramshahr were detachments of the 3474th and the 506th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Companies, as well as the 3455th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company; at Andimeshk, the 3467th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company.
		The group at Khorramshahr had to contend with an initial hospitalization of 20 percent of its strength on account of the heat, as well as a heavy labor turnover among the native workmen.
		Beginning in June 1943 a rising tide of complaints from the Soviets called attention to persistent breakdown of Studebakers, Fords, and Chevrolets assembled at Andimeshk and Khorramshahr, breakdowns not attributable to the rough overland journey northward after assembly or to the sometimes reckless operation by native drivers.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/persian/chapter14.htm (3433 words)

	مشروح اخبار بولتن ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The key trading center of Iran, Khorramshahr Port which is the nearest port to Iraq’s Basra Port has developed to transit goods to that country, said the director general of the port Ebrahim Eidani yesterday.
		Rebuilding of Khorramshahr port, which plays a key role in commercial exchange in the Persian Gulf, has been a strategic decision made by the PSO, which would lead to the enrichment of the economy in a direct way.
		The PSO allocated some 200 billion rials of credits in total to rebuild seven piers in Khorramshahr Port of which 180 billion rials have been received in the current year.
	www.irtp.com /news/2004/text.asp?idnewsID=4059 (227 words)

	Economic news in brief (Feb. 23)
		TEHRAN – The volume of loading and unloading container ships in the southern port of Khorramshahr corroborated 64% growth in the past 11 months of the current Iranian year (Mar. 21, 2004 to Feb. 20, 2005) in comparison with the corresponding period last year.
		During the said period, some 72,000 TEU containers were loaded or unloaded in Khorramshahr, which is the second major loading port in Iran.
		Meanwhile, 950 thousand tons of goods were totally loaded or destined for Khorramshahr port during the 11-month period, showing 10% growth.
	www.mehrnews.ir /en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=160118 (608 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Opinion, Iran-Iraq war, Nima Kasraie
		Secondly, before the liberation of Khorramshahr, the Security Council had not issued a resolution on the conflict between Iran and Iraq.
		Therefore, after the liberation of Khorramshahr, there was no resolution to be used as the basis for settling the conflict between Iran and Iraq.
		Hence, accepting a ceasefire after the liberation of Khorramshahr would only have disheartened the Iranian forces and given relief to the Iraqi aggressors.
	www.iranian.com /Opinion/2002/January/War (639 words)

	Iranian city of Khorramshahr hit in fourth rocket attack
		Buildings shook and windows broke as another rocket, the fourth fired by US warplanes into the Iranian territory since Friday, landed outside the southern Iranian city of Khorramshahr on Saturday, IRNA reported.
		Residents in the city heard a strong explosion at 15:55 (1125 GMT).
		IRNA reporters in Khorramshahr are trying to locate the site of the blast.
	www.payvand.com /news/03/mar/1119.html (385 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Saddam victims have no taste for revenge
		Hossien Jaferi, a harbourmaster at Khorramshahr in southern Iran, pointed at the river where masts of sunken ships poked through the muddy water and husks of bombed-out buildings lined the shore.
		Twenty-two years after Iraq invaded Iran across the river which forms the border, the people of Khorramshahr are still smarting from the memory of the bloody battle.
		More than 1,000 people died when the port became the first and only town to be captured by Iraqi forces in the eight-year war.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/23/wirq223.xml (555 words)

	Bushehr - Iran Nuclear Reactor
		In 1977 the bulk of the fleet was shifted from Khorramshahr to the newly completed base at Bandar-e Abbas, the new naval headquarters.
		Bushehr was the other main base; smaller facilities were located at Khorramshahr, Khark Island, and Bandar-e Khomeini (formerly known as Bandar-e Shahpur).
		By 1979 the Shah's air force, numbering close to 100,000 personnel, was by far the most advanced of the three services and among the most impressive air forces in the developing world.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/iran/bushehr-location.htm (680 words)

	مشروح اخبار بولتن ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Khorramshahr, Khuzestan prov, Nov 30, IRNA -- Managing Director of Khorramshahr Shipping Organization said here Sunday that Iran`s membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) which allows for country to use uniform tariffs with other countries is a logical step and beneficial for the country.
		The lowering of tariffs from 178 cents for each GT tons to 17 and 25 cents has led to 135 percent increase in number of ships docking in the country`s ports including the southern port of Khorramshahr in the past eight months.
		In line with the more privatized objectives, he said Khorramshahr Port Organization by ceding two `miscellaneous terminals` and a container-terminal to the private sector has raised rls 30 billion.
	www.irtp.com /news/2003/text.asp?idnewsID=3135 (352 words)

	AhlulBayt Discussion Forum -> Achievements of Imam Khomeini (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After getting themselves in good shape, the Iranian forces liberated the city of Khorramshahr, which was the 'jewel' amongst the occupied territories, on the 24th May 1982.
		The unexpected liberation of Khorramshahr, and the performance of the Iranian combatants astonished the Saddam regime and his Persian-Gulf Sheikhdom supporters.
		His Arab backers were so petrified at the Iranian forces recent advances in the then 20-month old war, they also came forward supporting the ceasefire bid by offering to pay $62 billion reparation, for the damages caused to Iran by the Iraqi army in the course of 20-month war.
	www.shiachat.com /forum/index.php?act=ST&f=19&t=11028 (3286 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Mandaic language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Neo-Mandaic survives in three subdialects, which arose in the cities of Shushtar, Shah Wali, and Dezful in northern Khuzestan, Iran.
		The Mandaean communities in these cities fled persecution during the 1880s and settled in the Iranian cities of Ahwaz and Khorramshahr.
		While Khorramshahr boasted the largest Mandaic-speaking population until the 1980s, the Iran-Iraq War caused many to flee into diaspora, leaving Ahwaz the only remaining Mandaic-speaking community.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Mandaic (339 words)

	Iran Tour , Iran Travel, iran tour operatore
		Khuzestan The area covers southern Iran from Khorramshahr and Abadan in the southwestern to Bandar Abbas in the southern Iran.
		Abadan and Khorramshahr which were ag big industrial and commercial centers of Iran due to oil explorations as from early 20th century, are now under total reconstruction after Iran-Iraq War.
		At present the center of activity has shifted to the Province of Hormozgan, mainly around Bandar Abbas, in Kish and Qeshm Islands out of 14 large, inhabited and interesting Iranian islands.
	www.persevoyages.com /iran.ahvaz.htm (525 words)

	Iran Daily
		He noted that non-oil exports from Khorramshahr to southern Iraqi ports via sea are quicker and cheaper for both Iran and Iraq.
		He, however, maintained that exchange of goods with Iraq via Khorramshahr would reduce the volume of bilateral trade at Shalamcheh border.
		Qanavati concluded by urging Iraqi and Iranian businessmen as well as businessmen of other countries to use the facilities of Khorramshahr for exporting goods to Iraq.
	www.iran-daily.com /1383/2182/html (2209 words)

	Welcome to Netiran! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Liberation of Khorramshahr and eight years of Sacred Defense represent a historical phenomenon heavily affecting the Iranian society and even Muslim nations.
		Liberation of Khorramshahr could not be simply forgotten and this historical event can persist in different forms.
		I summarize these factors: political unity in the country, rapid action of revolutionary guards and the army after Operation Fathol-Mobin, unity between the revolutionary guards and the army, good intelligence, revolutionary war strategy, good planning for crossing Karoun River, resistance and patience of the combatants throughout the war despite sultry weather.
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