Category: Shatt al-Arab basin

Originating in eastern Turkey, the Euphrates flows through Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris in the Shatt al-Arab, which empties into the Persian Gulf.

The length of the Shatt al-Arab, which connects the Euphrates and the Tigris with the Persian Gulf, is given by various sources as.

Once the Euphrates enters the Upper Mesopotamian plains, its grade drops significantly ; within Syria the river falls while over the last stretch between Hīt and the Shatt al-Arab the river drops only.

Among the few large rivers flowing into the Indian Ocean are the Zambezi, Shatt al-Arab, Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Jubba and Irrawaddy River.

It immediately laid claim to the Shatt al-Arab waterway, Iran's oil rich Khuzestan Province, and the British protectorate of Kuwait, since Kuwait had been part of Mesopotamia prior its takeover by the British in 1899.

Its location allowed it to benefit from the caravan trade to Aleppo and Baghdad, Shatt al-Arab trade, and from smuggling trade into Ottoman territory that high tariffs encouraged.

This inland sea of some is connected to the Gulf of Oman in the east by the Strait of Hormuz ; and its western end is marked by the major river delta of the Shatt al-Arab, which carries the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris.

Iraq's egress to the gulf is narrow and easily blockaded consisting of the marshy river delta of the Shatt al-Arab, which carries the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers, where the east bank is held by Iran.

The Achaemenid high naval command had established major naval bases located along Shatt al-Arab river, Bahrain, Oman, and Yemen.

The Persian fleet would soon not only be used for peacekeeping purposes along the Shatt al-Arab but would also open the door to trade with India via Persian Gulf.

After Khomeini gained power, skirmishes between Iraq and revolutionary Iran occurred for ten months over the sovereignty of the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway, which divides the two countries.

Iran's western borders are with Turkey in the north and Iraq in the south, terminating at the Shatt al-Arab, which Iranians call the Arvand Rud.

Note: the Shatt al-Arab is usually navigable by maritime traffic for about 130 km ; channel has been dredged to 3 m and is in use.

The stated reason for Iraq's invasion was the contested sovereignty over the Shatt al-Arab waterway ( Arvand Rud in Persian ).

Iran demanded the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Iranian territory and the return to the status quo ante for the Shatt al-Arab, as established under the Algiers Agreement.

* Iran and Iraq restored diplomatic relations in 1990, but they are still trying to work out written agreements settling outstanding disputes from their eight-year war concerning border demarcation, prisoners of war, and freedom of navigation in and sovereignty over the Shatt al-Arab waterway.

He was said to have been captured in the swamps of the Shatt al-Arab ( though, as he seems to have proven a thorn in the side of Sennacherib later on, this might not have been quite true ).

In Middle Persian literature and the Shahnama ( written between c. 977 and 1010 AD ), the name Arvand is used for the Tigris, the confluent of the Shatt al-Arab.

Iranians also used this name specifically to designate the Shatt al-Arab during the later Pahlavi period, and continue to do so after the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

In 1937, Iran and Iraq signed a treaty that settled the dispute over control of the Shatt al-Arab.

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.

During the Islamic centuries, the Daylamite Buwayhid king, Panah Khusraw Adud ad-Dawlah ordered the digging of a canal to join Karun River ( which at the time emptied independently into the Persian Gulf through the Bahmanshir channel, to the Arvand Rud / Shatt al-Arab ( the joint estuary of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Establishment of a port town at the confluence of the Haffar and the Arvand Rud / Shatt al-Arab is natural and may be expected.

The Iranians gathered around the Shatt al-Arab ( Known as Arvand Rud in Iran ) waterway, surrounding the city and, thus, beginning the second siege.

The precise drawing of river boundaries has been important on countless occasions ; notable examples include the Shatt al-Arab ( known as Arvand Rud in Iran ) between Iraq and Iran, the Danube in central Europe, the Kasikili / Sedudu Island dispute between Namibia and Botswana, settled by the International Court of Justice in 1999, and the 2004 dispute settlement under the UN Law of the Sea concerning the offshore boundary between Guyana and Suriname, in which the thalweg of the Courantyne River played a role in the ruling.

Khuzestan Plain borders Mesopotamia and is separated from it by the Shatt al-Arab ( known as Arvand Rud in Iran ) river.

Below Basra, however, the Karun River enters the Shatt al Arab from Iran, carrying large quantities of silt that present a continuous dredging problem in maintaining a channel for ocean-going vessels to reach the port at Basra.

The document defined the common border all along the Khawr Abd Allah ( Shatt ) River estuary as the thalweg.

As for the Persian name of the Shatt al-Arab, Arvandrud, though such a name appears in the Shahnama, it refers more properly to the River Tigris.

At the Kut Barrage much of the water is diverted into the Shatt al-Hayy, which was once the main channel of the Tigris.

the swamps act as silt traps, and the Shatt al Arab is relatively silt free as it flows south.

1, 015 km ; Shatt al Arab is usually navigable by maritime traffic for about 130 km ; channel has been dredged to 3 m and is in use ; Tigris and Euphrates Rivers have navigable sections for shallow-draft watercraft ; Shatt al Basrah canal was navigable by shallow-draft craft before closing in 1991 because of the Gulf War

Its chief importance is its strategic location, controlling access to the Shatt al-Arab waterway ( and thus access to the port of Basra ).

( The name " Shatt " is also applied to other unrelated languages of the area.

Al-Faw (; sometimes transliterated as Fao ) is a small port on the Al Faw Peninsula in Iraq near the Shatt al-Arab and the Persian Gulf.

The Shatt al-Arab is now the point where the great rivers drain out, east of the Khawr Abd Allah.

It is said to lie at latitude 30 ° 33 ' N, longitude 47 ° 45 ' E, and is very near to the Shatt al-Arab waterway.

Beyond there the Euphrates continues to the Hindiya Barrage, which was constructed in 1914 to divert the river into the Hindiyah Channel ; the present day Shatt al Hillah had been the main channel of the Euphrates before 1914.

This problem has been superseded by a greater obstacle to river traffic, however, namely the presence of several sunken hulls that have been rusting in the Shatt al Arab since early in the Iran-Iraq land.

The Shah justified his move by arguing that almost all river borders all over the world ran along the thalweg, and by claiming that because most of the ships that used the Shatt al-Arab were Iranian, the 1937 treaty was unfair to Iran.

The city extends to the right bank of the Shatt al-Arab waterway near its confluence with the Haffar arm of the Karun river.

The commander, General Fazlollah Zahedi, accompanied by several government officials, met with Khaz ' al and spent an evening with him onboard his yacht, anchored in the Shatt al-Arab river by his palace in the village of Fallahiyah near the city of Mohammerah.

It was often contested between the Safavids and the Ottoman Empire, which held the neighboring town of Basra on the other side of the Shatt al-Arab river in modern day Iraq.