Khuzestan in a sentence

The gas will be supplied to the plant through a 90-kilometer pipeline from Bidboland Gas Refinery, located in the nearby Khuzestan region.

The Harkat al-Nazal terror outfit has been pushing to separate the southwestern province of Khuzestan — home to the country’s Arab population — from the rest of Iran by engaging in an armed conflict against the Iranian government.

Born in Dezful, in the southern province of Khuzestan, in 1955, Mokhber holds a PhD in international law and has ascended through various important social and political positions.

The defense minister, meanwhile, addressed the issue of the attacks that the regime carried out against defensive targets across the Iranian provinces of Tehran, Khuzestan, and Ilam last week.

From Sunday, 22 cities and towns in the south-western Khuzestan province will be under a three-day lockdown, the province's governorate announced on Saturday.

He said the project would be a major environmental measure in the southwestern province of Khuzestan and would be instrumental in the petrochemical development of Gachsaran.

Internet-access advocacy group NetBlocks.org reported the disruption affecting Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province late Thursday.

Latest reports have shown Khuzestan red along with a few other provinces, including the capital Tehran and the Shiite clerical centre of Qom, where Iran reported its first cases in February.

Provinces of Mazandaran and Gilan were the major producers of rice last year, while Khuzestan, Golestan and Fars provinces were respectively the other Iranian major rice producers, it said.

Ahvaz, the capital of Shia-majority Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province, is home to the country’s Arab minority.

Jamal Hamidi, director of the loading station in Bandar Khomeini of Khuzestan Province (southwest Iran) said on October 3: “On Sunday, most truck drivers at the loading station went on strike.

Last month, Iran summoned the envoys of the Netherlands, Denmark and Britain over a September 22 shooting attack on a military parade in Khuzestan in which 25 people were killed.

Of the 25 people killed, 12 were from Ahvaz and the rest from elsewhere in Khuzestan.

There is no indication that this week’s protests in Khuzestan were anything more than an expression of popular anger against perceived denial of an Iranian Arab identity.

At this point, Saddam believed that his army was too demoralised and damaged to hold onto Khuzestan and major swathes of territory in Iran, and withdrew his remaining armed forces from those areas.

By this time, most of the Khuzestan province had returned to Iran's hands.

In the first days of the war, there was heavy ground fighting around strategic ports as Iraq launched an attack on Khuzestan.

Iraq also helped to instigate riots among Iranian Arabs in Khuzestan province, supporting them in their labor disputes, and turning uprisings into armed battles between Iran's Revolutionary Guards and militants, killing over 100 on both sides.

Only 9% of managers (of the oil company) were from Khuzestan.

Saddam's primary interest in war may have also stemmed from his desire to right the supposed "wrong" of the Algiers Agreement, in addition to finally achieving his desire of annexing Khuzestan and becoming the regional superpower.