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Karun River

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Karun River

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Dam on the Karun River, Iran
(credit: Dennis Briskin/Tom Stack & Associates)
River, southwestern Iran. A tributary of the Shatt al-Arab, it rises in the Bakhtiari Mountains and flows through mountains for 515 mi (829 km). The Haffar Channel, dug in 986, changed its course, causing frontier disputes between Iran and the Ottoman Empire; Iran gained the right to the waterway by treaty in 1847.
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The Shatt Al Arab, which flows into the Persian Gulf, is a narrow stretch of river around 120 miles long and is fed by the Euphrates, Tigris, and Karun rivers.
Four UK soldiers die on Iraq boat patrol by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Syria and Iraq both depend for drinking water, irrigation and hydroelectric power on the Euphrates and the Tigris -- which converge at Qurnah in southern Iraq where they are joined by the Karun River from Iran, to form the Shatt Al Arab, which flows into the Gulf.
MID-EAST WATER CRISIS: TIME IS RUNNING OUT by Blanche, Ed / The Middle East
6 billion yen as the first tranche of financing for a dam project in the Karun River in southern Iran.
Japan pledges 7.5 bil. yen in soft loans to Iran by Asian Economic News
 
 
 
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