Karun

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Karun River passing the Iranian city of Ahvaz
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Karun River passing the Iranian city of Ahvaz

The Karun (also Karoun) is Iran's most effluent, and the only navigable, river. It is 450 miles (720 km) long. It rises in the Zard Kuh mountains of the Bakhtiyari/Bakhtiari district in the Zagros range, receiving many tributaries, such as the Diz and the Kuhrang, before passing through the capital of the Khuzistan/Khuzestan province of Iran, the city of Ahvaz.

The Karun continues toward the Persian Gulf, forking into two primary branches on its delta: the Bahmanshir and the Haffar that joins the Shatt al-Arab (Arvand River in Persian), emptying into the Gulf. The important Island of Abadan is located between these two branches of the Karun. The port city of Khorramshahr is divided from the Island of Abadan by the Haffar branch.


[edit] History

It was here during the Iran-Iraq War that the Iranians stopped the early Iraqi advance. With its limited military stocks, Iran unveiled its "human wave" assaults which used thousands of Basij (Popular Mobilization Army or People's Army) volunteers.

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