The Anglo-Persian Oil Company built their first pipeline terminus oil refinery in Abadan, starting in 1909 and completing it in 1913 ( see Abadan Refinery ).

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

This Abadan Crisis reduced Iran's oil income to almost nil, putting a severe strain on the implementation of Mosaddegh's promised domestic reforms.

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.

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 ).

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 ).

This led to the Abadan Crisis where foreign countries refused to take Iranian oil under British pressure and the Abadan refinery was closed.

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.

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.

One of the primary reasons for initiating the campaign in Mesopotamia was to defend the oil refinery at Abadan at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab.

In Abadan was one of the world's earliest oil refineries.

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

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

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.

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.

What used to be Iran's largest refinery at Abadan was destroyed, never to fully recover.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The other factor was the August 1978 Cinema Rex Fire in Abadan where over 400 people died.

The population was predominantly wealthy and upper class, and along with Abadan, the prevalent culture was that of modern Iranian cosmopolitanism.

With the start of the postwar reconstruction of the war torn cities of Abadan and Khorramshahr in 1998, the Southern Branch was moved back to Khorramshahr, expanding its academic scope by admitting undergraduate students in the fields of marine biology, environmental sciences and fisheries.

" Nonetheless the party was able to fill the streets of Tehran and Abadan " with tens of thousands of enthusiastic demonstrators " for May Day in 1946.

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 ).

He was born in Abadan and has directed over 20 films.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

* Abadan Photo Gallery from the Khuzestan Governorship

The pipeline coming from Abadan also enters Azerbaijan in Astara.

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.