Travel Guide Ahvaz

City-step to reach the west of the country from the Persian Gulf or the central plateau, Ahvaz is above all a practical stop. The town has a wide range of activities between 13 h and 16 h and is opaque and very welcoming. If you have to spend a few hours, wander through the shopping streets between Talequani and Salman-e Farsi streets. Here, a little tip of Arabia seems to have slipped into Iran with enturbannés men dressed with a long dress and Arabic sonorities that ring on the streets. Capital of Khuzestan, a strategic oil province for Iran, this city set in the heart of a plain, crossed at the time by the royal route linking Suse to Persepolis, is subjected to a hot climate most of the year, with temperature peaks sometimes reaching 50 ° C. In 1908, the successive discovery of oil and natural gas bouleverse the whole of the de. the economy of the country. In a few decades'time, Ahvaz turned into an industrial city, which was encircled by oil farms whose fires were the horizon. During the war between Baghdad and Tehran (1980-1988), the city and its region are one of the key issues of the conflict, and it is repeatedly bombed by the Iraqi army. Countless panels of the martyrs bear witness to the very heavy human toll paid by the population, consisting of a third of Arab Arabs. The United States and Britain, which occupy neighbouring Iraq with their 160 000 soldiers for more than two years, are dreaming of making a low hand on the area's energy resources. Following a series of attacks in June 2005, killing 8 people in Ahvaz, the Iranian regime directly accused Washington and London of attempting to destabilize the country by supporting pro-Arab separatist groups. The city is also known to be one of the most polluted in the world… In 2013, significant pollution of acid rain poured into the column. It nevertheless remains a convenient stopover to visit the northern part of the province, particularly rich in Persian remains.