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Khuzistan

American  
[khoo-zi-stahn, koo-zuh-stan, -stahn] / ˌxu zɪˈstɑn, ˈku zəˌstæn, -ˌstɑn /
Or Khuzestan

noun

  1. a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Ahwaz.


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As part of this strategy, the Iraqis have repeatedly shelled Dezful, nexus for most of the oil pipelines running northward from Khuzistan.

From Time Magazine Archive

The current Iranian offensive began on April 30, when Tehran's forces established a bridgehead west of the Karun River in Khuzistan province.

From Time Magazine Archive

A similar difficulty exists in Khuzistan, center of the Iranian oil industry.

From Time Magazine Archive

Iraqi claims about the capture of four cities inside Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province in the first week of fighting proved to be embarrassingly premature.

From Time Magazine Archive

It runs thus "Fifteen Months' Pilgrimage through untrodden tracts of Khuzistan and Persia, in a journey from India to England, through parts of Turkish Arabia, Persia, Armenia, Russia, and Germany."

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832 by Various

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