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Khorramshahr (khōräm'shä`hər), city (1991 pop. 34,750), Khuzestan prov., SW Iran, at the confluence of the Karun River and the Shatt al Arab, near the Persian Gulf. It is a busy port. Its development dates to the late 19th cent., when steam navigation on the Karun was started. The city was known as Muhammerah until the mid-1920s, when Reza Shah took it out of the hands of a semi-independent local sheikh and placed it under the control of the central government as Khorramshahr. It was severely attacked and partially destroyed during the Iran-Iraq War Iran-Iraq War, 1980–88, protracted military conflict between Iran and Iraq. It officially began on Sept. 22, 1980, with an Iraqi land and air invasion of western Iran, although Iraqi spokespersons maintained that Iran had been engaging in artillery attacks on
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Khorramshahr

a city in southwestern Iran, in the ostan (province) of Khuzestan. Population, 125,000 (1975). Khorramshahr is a port on the Shatt al-Arab at the river’s confluence with the Karun. The city has a railroad station. Its industries include shipbuilding, oil refining, and the manufacture of leather goods. Khorramshahr exports dates, cotton, hides, and skins.

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We are ready to connect the Asaluyeh power plant with the capacity of 1,000 MW to the country`s electricity network," he said adding that a steam power section of the Kerman combined cycle power plant comprising four units each with 360 MW is ready for commissioning, and two units of Khorramshahr power plant are also ready for commissioning and two units of Chabahar power plant will be launched in June.

Iran to Launch Two New Power Plants by Moj News Agency (Tehran, Iran)

Darkhowin, a giant oilfield near the Iraqi border first found in 1964 and confirmed by NIOC in August 1993 near the Khorramshahr field, was offered in mid-1998 for development by foreign companies.

Iran - Karanj-Parsi by APS Review Oil Market Trends

The 500,000 population of this dusty city of Khorramshahr was halved by war.

CITY OF BLOODSHED; Inside Iran Day 2: border badlands by The Mirror (London, England)