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Ka·run

 (kə-ro͞on′, kä-)
A river of western Iran flowing about 725 km (450 mi) west and south into the Shatt al Arab on the Iraq border.
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Ka•run

(kəˈrun, kɑ-)

n.
a river in SW Iran, flowing SW to the Shatt-al-Arab. ab. 515 mi. (830 km) long.
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Dehqani said on Saturday that historic flash floods that inundated parts of the oil-rich province of Khuzestan in Southwest of the country over the past days had not caused the crude production in joint fields with Iraq, located to the West of the Karun River, to stop or slow down.
'Nagtapok mi karun kay birthday naho then naglingaw-lingaw pud mi,' said the birthday celebrant.
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After spending time on the bench for six consecutive Test matches against Afghanistan and England, the selectors dropped Karun Nair for the West Indies Test series.
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Frustrated Basra people are putting the onus of the pollution and lack of drinking water in their city on Iran which stopped the water flow from the Karun River, the longest Iranian river, into the Shatt Al-Arab River in Iraq and instead are allegedly pumping its polluted water in it.