Ahmadreza Abedzadeh (, born May 25, 1966 in Abadan ) is a retired Iranian football goalkeeper.

Other major urban centres such as Abadan and Ahvaz were also left in ruins, though nowhere nearly as bad as Khorramshahr.

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 ).

The pipeline coming from Abadan also enters Azerbaijan in Astara.

See also Tidal irrigation at Abadan island, Iran

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.

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 Refinery is one of the largest in the world.

The earliest mention of the island of Abadan, if not the port itself is found in works of the geographer Marcian, who renders the name " Apphadana ".

Earlier, the classical geographer, Ptolemy notes " Apphana " as an island off the mouth of the Tigris ( which is, where the modern Island of Abadan is located ).

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

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.

Khorramshahr is a port city located approximately north of Abadan.

However, there is absolutely no mention of such a place in the geographical records, while there are an ample mentions of the port of Abadan nearby.

Ahvaz located 120 km north-east of Abadan and is accessible via following routes in addition of a single runway airport:

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

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

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.

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

The Iranian cities of Abadan and Khorramshahr and the Iraqi city and major port of Basra are situated along this river.

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 ).

Category: Populated places in Abadan County

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

* Abadan Photo Gallery from the Khuzestan Governorship

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.

Other notable towns are Abadan ( formerly Büzmeýin, ) north-west of Ashgabat and Tejen in the south-east near the border with Mary Province.

Abadan had suffered serious damages during Iran – Iraq War ( 1980 – 88 ), including Saddam's deadly chemical weapons.

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.

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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.

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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.