(1997 est. pop. 308,000). The Iranian city of Abadan is located in the southeast corner of the country along the east bank of the Shatt al Arab River, 55 kilometers from the Persian Gulf. Its population is mainly Persian, though with a considerable...

Abadan (film) is also the name of a 2003 Iranian movie from director Mani Haghighi, as well as the name of a town in Turkmenistan Coordinates: 30°21′N, 48°17′E Abadan (Persian: آبادان) is a city in the Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran...

All across the flat, parched oil region known as Khuzestan, Iran is rebuilding at a furious pace, sweeping aside the rubble of eight years of war and the economic paralysis of the revolution. The war with Iraq left a panorama of devastation still...

A VOYAGE TO ABADAN The True Saga of USMs Desperate Requirement to Send Academy Cadets Off to War Before Their Schooling Was Completed. By Bill Jopes 148 Ppgs, Pix, 5.5"x 8.5" Softback. ISBN 0-7388-0625-0 - $15.00. (502) 742-2232; www.xlibris.com/avoyagetoabadan.html Happily, there is often...

Trucks line up every day at this border crossing to carry melons, cookies, soft drinks and appliances into Iraq. For truck driver Ala Saeedi, the booming trade is proof his country is helping its war-torn neighbor.This spot in southwestern Iran, he notes, "was once the...

The waters where Iranian navy forces seized a group of British sailors and marines are near an area long contested by Iran and Iraq _ just outside the mouth of a muddy, 125-mile-long channel that separates the Arab and Persian worlds.The neighbors don't even agree...