A report on Khuzestan province and Iran–Iraq War

Abadan ( Ābādān, ) is a city and capital of Abadan County, Khuzestan Province, which is located in the southwest of Iran.

The civilian population of the city dropped close to zero during the eight years of the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988).

Khorramshahr (, also romanized as Khurramshahr, المحمرة, romanized as Al-Muhammerah) is a city and capital of Khorramshahr County, Khuzestan Province, Iran.

The city was destroyed in the Iran–Iraq War, with the 1986 census recording a population of zero.

Ahvaz is a city in the southwest of Iran and the capital of Khuzestan province.

Iraq attempted to annex Khūzestān and Ahwaz in 1980, resulting in the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988).

It rises in the Zard Kuh mountains of the Bakhtiari district in the Zagros Range, receiving many tributaries, such as the Dez and the Kuhrang, before passing through the capital of the Khuzestan Province of Iran, the city of Ahvaz before emptying to its mouth into Arvand Rud (Shatt al-Arab).

It was here during the Iran–Iraq War that the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces stopped the early Iraqi Armed Forces advance.

On 22 September 1980, the Iraqi army invaded the western Iranian province of Khuzestan, initiating the Iran–Iraq War.

Iran consists of the Iranian Plateau, with the exception of the coasts of the Caspian Sea and Khuzestan.

In 2008, Iranian Arabs comprised about 1.6 million people, and are primarily located in Khuzestan Province.

There were attempts by the Iraqi regime during the Iran–Iraq War (1980–88) to generate Arab nationalism in the area but without any palpable success.

Operation Fath-ol-Mobin (, a Quranic phrase meaning "Undeniable Victory" or "Manifest Victory") was a major Iranian military operation conducted during the Iran–Iraq War, in March 1982.

Some believe that this operation was the turning point in the war and that it led to the eviction of Iraqi troops from Khuzestan.

In Khuzestan, Arabs have formed the dominant ethnic group in Shadegan, Hoveyzeh and Susangerd, a majority in Mahshahr, Khorramshahr, Abadan and Ahvaz.

Later in 1980, The Khuzestan province has become a central scene of the Iran–Iraq War, which prompted the dimming of internal conflict, despite the Iraqi hopes of inciting a wide-scale rebellion by Arabs of Khuzestan, which eventually turned vague.

He suppressed several movements, particularly Shi'a and Kurdish movements which sought to overthrow the government or gain independence, respectively, and maintained power during the Iran–Iraq War and the Gulf War.

Iraq invaded Iran, first attacking Mehrabad Airport of Tehran and then entering the oil-rich Iranian land of Khuzestan, which also has a sizable Arab minority, on 22 September 1980 and declared it a new province of Iraq.

Abu Musa led the conquest of Khuzestan from 639 to 642 and was ordered by Umar to aid Uthman ibn Abi al-As, then fighting Iran from a new, more easterly miṣr at Tawwaj.

The population declined during the Iran–Iraq War, being under 900,000 in the late 1980s, possibly reaching a low point of just over 400,000 during the worst of the war.