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Iraq first claimed Khorramshahr had fallen four days after the start of the war, only to encounter stiff resistence in the section of the city cut off from the port sector by the Karun River. Iraqi tanks then attacked and encircled the city...
...port area and in repelling a series of savage counterattacks by Iranian regulars and militiamen. Reported an Iranian journalist who witnessed one of the battles: "The carnage was unbelievable. The plains around the city were strewn with corpses." By Saturday the Iraqis claimed that their infantry had crossed the Karun River and thus established a new beachhead beyond Khorramshahr...
Four centuries ago, Persia's Shah Tahmasp looked on the sparkling waters of the Karun River on one side of the Zagros mountain range and at the parched and dusty land around Isfahan on the other side, and issued an imperial decree: let the waters of the Karun be brought to Isfahan so that Isfahan valley may bloom. Thousands of peasants chiseled into the mountainside to cut an aqueduct, but midway they hit a core of hard rock that dented even the Shah's will. Work stopped...
...third city, to celebrate the completion of the project. Foreigners had come to the aid of the Iranians: Britain's engineering firm of Sir Alexander Gibb and the U.S.'s Point Four Administration, which contributed $200,000 to complete the work in four years. Soon, Karun's waters will flow through the mountains along a 9,000-ft. tunnel and spill over the thirsty Isfahan valley, irrigating 150,000 acres, and making a prosperous farmland out of desert...
...mile railway which more than tripled Iran's previously existing lines. Heading north from the Persian Gulf, the railroad crosses the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s pipeline; passes through Ahwaz, where Alexander the Great's fleet landed 2,263 years ago; bridges the swift Karun River; climbs mountains to reach Dizful, famed city of rats. Thence the line passes northeast through Sultanabad, city of rugs, and Qum, holy city of the Shi'ites, to reach Teheran. From the capital the road continues east, northeast, over a 7,200-foot-high mountain pass to reach Bandar Shah...