Shalamcheh

Coordinates: 30°30′N 48°04′E / 30.500°N 48.067°E / 30.500; 48.067
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Shalamcheh
شلمچه
Khuzestan Province

Shalamcheh (

Abadan. The town was one of the main sites of invasion of Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the Iran–Iraq War. Some 50,000 Iranians died in the fighting around the town, and there is today a war memorial in their memory.[1]
One of the two railway projects connecting Iran to Iraq is through Shalamcheh.[2]

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30°30′N 48°04′E / 30.500°N 48.067°E / 30.500; 48.067