The Washington Post, June 7th, 1991
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 visible three years after a desperate Iran accepted a cease-fire. Pipelines, bridges, houses, factories, electric transmission pylons, oil field installations and bridges were left in ruins. Abadan and nearby Khorramshahr, the main cities on the Shatt al Arab waterway between Iran and Iraq, were devastated and all but abandoned. Now the rebuilding eff...
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