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Karun
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Ka·run  (k-rn, kä-)
A river of western Iran flowing about 724 km (450 mi) west and south into the Shatt al Arab on the Iraq border.
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Arvand Roud (known as the Shatt al-Arab in Arabic), a strategic, 200-kilometers-long (120-mile) extension of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq, and Karoun River in Iran, runs between Iraq and Iran, separating the two countries by a width of 400 to 1,500 meters before flowing into the Persian Gulf.
Iraqi gov't calls on Iran to assist in solving water shortage by The Kurdish Globe (Erbil, Iraq)
Arvand Roud (known as the Shatt al-Arab in Arabic), a strategic 200 kilometers long (120-mile) extension of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq and Karoun river in Iran, runs between Iraq and Iran, separating the two countries by a width of 400 to 1,500 meters (437 to 1,640 yards) before flowing into the Persian Gulf.
Iraq Calls for Iran's Cooperation in Fighting Water Crisis by FARS News Agency
At the centre of the dispute is the Karoun river, which this year has been completely staunched by Iran to stop its water feeding into the Shatt al-Arab just above the Iranian oil city of Abadan, local people say.
Iraq s Garden of Eden waterway facing catastrophe by Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman)
 
 
 
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