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Ahvaz (or Ahwaz)

Capital of Khuzestan province, southwest Iran; population (2006) 985,600. Situated on the River Karun, the city is an important administrative and supply centre for the southwestern Iranian oilfields, and is connected by rail to Tehran and the Gulf. There are also textile and petrochemical industries. Ahvaz was badly damaged during the Iran–Iraq war (1980–88).

Ahvaz was formerly a junction point for several ancient routes, and is built on the ruins of a much older city.



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of Iranian-trained revolutionaries in most other countries, and the negative blowback Tehran has experienced from its subversive policies--including protracted pariah status, a paucity of allies during its eight-year war with Saddam Hussein, and now the apparent spill-over of violence from post-Saddam Iraq into Ahvaz and other Iranian cities.
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