It lies on Abadan Island ( long, 3 – 19 km or 2 – 12 miles wide, the island is bounded in the west by the Arvand waterway and to the east by the Bahmanshir outlet of the Karun River ), from the Persian Gulf, near the Iraqi-Iran border.

The siltation of the river delta forced the town further away from water ; In the 14th century, however, Ibn Battutah described Abadan just as a small port in a flat salty plain.

" The Abadan oil refinery was featured on the reverse side of Iran's 100-rial banknotes printed in 1965 and from 1971 to 1973.

By 1911 APOC had run a pipeline from the find to a refinery at Abadan.

Volume production of Persian oil products eventually started in 1913 from a refinery built at Abadan, for its first 50 years the largest oil refinery in the world ( see Abadan Refinery ).

dwt, which increased the tonnage of oil transported from Abadan refinery in Iran, whilst remaining light enough for the tankers to pass through the shallow waters of the Suez Canal.

The Abadan Crisis occurred from 1951 to 1954, after Iran nationalised the Iranian assets of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company ( AIOC ) and expelled Western companies from oil refineries in the city of Abadan ( see Abadan Refinery ).

It prohibited exports of key British commodities, including sugar and steel, directed the withdrawal of all British personnel from Iranian oil fields and all but a hard core of about 300 administrators from Abadan and blocked Iran's access to its hard currency accounts in British banks.

In order to increase the line's locomotive fleet the RE built a yard at Abadan to transfer locomotives from merchant ships to barges to take them up the River Karun and a derrick on a jetty on the Karun at Ahwaz to unload them from the barges onto the railway.

The pipeline coming from Abadan also enters Azerbaijan in Astara.

Among the founder-members were Hassan Nezam ( 1922 – 1958 ), the principal founder, who was killed in Tehran in 1958 by SAVAK ( this extraordinary activist was also a leading regional figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, Khuzestan province, under the name Hassan Dorood ); Erik Mansoorian, who died in Abadan after returning to Iran in 1964 ; Hassan M. Saleh ( 1926 – 2000 ), who, from the early 1960s, was in a state of a chronic mental dysfunction as a result of severe torture ; Ali Madan ( 1932 – 1995 ); Ahmed al-Thawadi, “ Saif Bin Ali ” ( 1937 – 2006 ); and Ali Dwaigher ( born 1930 ).

During World War II a pipeline was also laid from Abadan, then the location of the world's largest refinery, to Andimeshk ; from there the fuel was re-loaded onto trucks and transported to the Soviet Union.

The city's port is one of the most important in Iran, exporting gas and refinery products from Abadan.

His father, who worked for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Abadan, was away from home much of the time, and hence Gregorian and his younger sister Ojik were raised by Voski Mirzaian, his maternal grandmother.

During the Abadan Crisis he was assigned to prolong the Shah's royal hold on the Throne from the republican challenge led by Mohammed Mossadegh, then the Prime Minister of Iran.

Abadan (, Arabic: عبادان, also Romanized as Ābādān ) is a city in and the capital of Abadan County, Khuzestan Province, Iran.

In September 1980, Abadan was almost overrun during a surprise attack on Khuzestan by Iraq, marking the beginning of the Iran – Iraq War.

At that time they were working at port cities Bushehr, Khorramshahr, Bandar Abbas and major oil refineries such as Abadan and Masjed Soleiman in the province of Khuzestan, the latter area even boasting a football league.

The Khuzestan Plain is the relatively flat region of Iran where the Khuzestan province and the cities of Ahvaz, Susa and Abadan are located.

Minoo Island is an Iranian island in the Khuzestan province ( located in Persian Gulf ), in southwestern Iran and is close to the city of Abadan.

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