The local Abadan police had taken notice, and became suspicious of Hossein Takbali-zadeh and his accomplices, and had started following the arsonists as they were entering Cinema Rex.

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

They included Mozzafar Baghai, head of the worker-based Toilers party ; Hussein Makki, who had helped lead the takeover of the Abadan refinery and was at one point considered Mosadegh's heir apparent ; and most outspokenly Ayatollah Kashani, who damned Mosaddegh with the " vitriol he had once reserved for the British ".

By 1950 Abadan had become the world's largest refinery.

The club, using four Shahin players, had a friendly match with Jam Abadan, a respected team at the time.

The flight originated from Abadan the day before but had to overnight stop in Isfahan due to weather in Mashhad.

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

* All ports: Abadan ( largely destroyed in fighting during 1980-88 war ), Ahvaz, Bandar Abbas, Bandar-e Anzali ( Caspian sea ), Bushehr, Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni, Bandar-e Lengeh, Bandar-e Mahshahr, Bandar-e Torkaman ( Caspian sea ), Chabahar ( Bandar-e Beheshti ), Kharg island, Lavan island, Sirri island, Khorramshahr ( limited operation since November 1992 ), Noshahr ( Caspian sea ), Arvand Kenar.

This led to British counter-moves and the loss of nearly all income during the Abadan Crisis.

He was a war artist during the Iran-Iraq war, accompanying an Iraqi regiment during an attack on the oil town of Abadan when it lost 582 men in a single day.

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

On 19 August 1978 — the anniversary of the US backed pro-Shah coup d ' état which overthrew the nationalists and popular Iranian prime minister, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh — the Cinema Rex, a movie theatre in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze by four Islamic Revolution sympathizers in an attempt to help the cause of Iran's Islamic Revolution.

* Tidal irrigation at Abadan island, Iran

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The 1937 treaty recognized the Iranian-Iraqi border as along the low-water mark on the eastern side of the Shatt al-Arab except at Abadan and Khorramshahr where the frontier ran along the thalweg ( the deep water line ) which gave Iraq control of almost the entire waterway ; provided that all ships using the Shatt al-Arab fly the Iraqi flag and have an Iraqi pilot, and required Iran to pay tolls to Iraq whenever its ships used the Shatt al-Arab.

For most of the 20th century, the largest refinery was the Abadan Refinery in Iran.

Due to its lack of rail connection to the interior of the country and its shallow anchorage, it has lost its position as the primary port of Persia / Iran, to other ports such as Abadan, Khorramshahr, and as of late, to the deep water ports such as Bandar Abbas and Chabahar port complex.

* Petroleum University of Technology, a university in Abadan, Ahvaz, Mahmud Abad and Tehran, Iran

In 1951, the Majlis ( Parliament of Iran ) named Mohammad Mossadegh as new prime minister by a vote of 79 – 12, who shortly after nationalized the British-owned oil industry ( see Abadan Crisis ).

In 1951, the Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, seized the oilfields in Abadan.

It functioned as a stopover en-route to Abadan Airport, Iran or Sharjah Airport, in present day UAE on the Karachi-Cairo route.

The Faw Peninsula (; also transliterated as Fao or Fawr ) is a marshy region adjoining the Persian Gulf in the extreme southeast of Iraq, between and to the southeast of the cities of Basra ( Iraq ) and Abadan ( Iran ).

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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 ).

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

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.

* Abadan Oil Refinery – Home page ( Persian only )

British and Indian troops were in Persia protecting the oilfields at Abadan and watching the Afghan frontier – Curzon believed that British economic and military aid, sent via India, could prop up the Persian government and make her a British client state.

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 ).

* Iran – Abadan, Isfahan, Mashhad, Shiraz

The 1937 treaty recognized the Iran-Iraq border to be along the low-water mark on the eastern side of the Shatt, except at Abadan and Khorramshahr, where the frontier ran along the the deep water line ( thalweg ), giving Iraq control of most of waterway.

During World War II, Abadan was a major logistics center for Lend-Lease aircraft being sent to the Soviet Union by the United States.

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.

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.

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.

Abadan Refinery is one of the largest in the world.

Abadan is thought to have been further developed into a major port city under the Abbasids ' rule.

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.

Politically, Abadan was often the subject of dispute between the nearby states ; in 1847, Persia acquired it, in which state Abadan has remained since.

From the 17th century onward, the island of Abadan was part of the lands of the Arab Ka ' ab ( Bani Kaab ) tribe.

Ruins of a building in Abadan.

For 18 months Abadan was besieged, but never captured, by Iraqi forces.

To honor the 100th anniversary of the refining of oil in Abadan, city officials are planning an " oil museum.

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

The Abadan Institute of Technology was established in Abadan in 1939.

There is an international airport in Abadan.

The climate in Abadan is arid and similar to Baghdad's, but slightly hotter due to Abadan's lower latitude.

* The Ottoman Empire cedes Abadan Island to the Persian Empire.