Ahvaz


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Ah·vaz

or Ah·waz  (ä-wäz′)
A city of southwest Iran northeast of Basra, Iraq. Modern Ahvaz was built on extensive ruins of an ancient Persian city.
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(Reuters) CAIRO -- 10 April 2019: Iranian authorities have ordered residents of five districts of the southwestern city of Ahvaz to evacuate immediately on Wednesday as floodwaters entered the capital of key oil-producing Khuzestan province, state television reported.
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DUBAI: At least four people were killed and five others injured on Thursday in a gas pipeline explosion in southwest Iran, the Iranian Students News Agency ISNA reported."Gas leakage from a pipeline that linked the gas network from Mahshahr city to Ahvaz city, caused the blast," ISNA quoted local official Kiamars Hajizadeh as saying.
Turkish Airlines has announced about the cancellation of the charter flight from Iran's Ahvaz city to Turkey's Istanbul city from Feb.
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Terrorist groups have committed many crimes against humanity, including killing of 29 Iranian citizens and injuring 70 others in the Ahvaz military parade attack.
Iran has blamed the US and its allies in the region, which includes Israel and Saudi Arabia, for the attack in Ahvaz that killed at least 25 people.
The video, in a tweet by the semi-official Fars news agency that was later deleted, comes as Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blamed Riyadh and Abu Dhabi for the attack in the city of Ahvaz on Saturday, which killed at least 24 people and wounded over 60.
On the afternoon of September 22, a bomb exploded at a military parade in Ahvaz, a southwestern city in Iran.