Abu Gharib

Masuma Abedini
54 بازدید

Abu Gharib is located in the Dasht-e-Abbas village, Mucian area, Dehloran, Ilam. It is located seventeen kilometers away from the highway between Andimeshk and Dehloran.

This village is located within flatlands. All of its northern parts, up to the Andimeshk-Dehloran highway, are flatlands. Abu Gharib, in terms of topography, is located in an area with an average slope of about 1.5 to 2 percent, making it favorable for agricultural products, such as wheat and barley. It has an average rainfall of about 260 mm, of which the majority occurs in winter. It has a maximum temperature of about 48 degrees Celsius and a minimum of around 6.8 degrees Celsius. The reason for its importance is because of its rich oil reserves. The people of Abu Gharib are Muslims who follow the Shia school of thought. They are usually farmers, herders or laborers. This village, in the 1976 census, had a population of 81 people. However, in the general population and housing census of 1996, its population rose to around 200 people. The residents of Abu Gharib speak Persian and Arabic.

The northern plains of Abu Gharib are known as the plains of Abbas, and to the south are the Tineh Heights, which were of great strategic importance during the imposed war. Today, the settlement of Dasht-e-Abbas is located in the center of this plain and is connected with Abu Gharib.

With the start of the imposed war and the invasion of the Einkhosh axis in the northwest of Abu Gharib by the Iraqi forces, Dasht-e Abbas and Pol-e Naderi, were occupied. However, in April 1982, during the Fath al-Mobin Operation, which was carried out in the occupied western areas of the cities of Shush and Andimeshk, the Iranian forces liberated these areas. Maps of the first days of the war show that Abu Gharib, Einkhosh, and the Tineh Heights, was occupied by the Iraqi 10th Division until the fourth day of the war, despite initial resistance. Prior to the Fath al-Mobin Operation, several operations by Iranian fighters inflicted losses to the Iraqi forces south of the Abbas Plain and the Fakkah axis, which are both linked to the Abu Gharib area. In the Fath al-Mobin Operation, the axis of Einkhosh and Dasht-e Abbas was one of the four axes targeted. In the third phase of this operation, the Quds base, which had the mission to liberate Abu Gharib and the Tineh heights in the south, succeeded in doing so on April 28, 1982. From that moment, until the end of the war, Abu Gharib did not pose a serious threat. At the end of the imposed war, the residents returned.[1]

 

[1] Summarized from the Encyclopedia of Sacred Defense, Vol. 1, Tehran, and Encyclopedia Center of the Research Institute of Sacred Defense Sciences and Education, 2010, pp. 284 and 285.