It was used as a location to monitor Iraqi forces In the eight years of war and it has a collection of Sacred defense works during 8-year of Imposed War and attracts about one million pilgrims every year.
It was used as a location to monitor Iraqi forces In the eight years of war and it has a collection of Sacred defense works during 8-year of Imposed War and attracts about one million pilgrims every year. This building was built by English Oil Co. in 1309 and after nationalization of Oil Industry, the first core of Iranian National Oil Company was set in this building. It was their headquarter during occupation of Khorramshahr by Iraqi Baathist, and it becomes Cultural & Artistic Center of Sacred Defense after liberation of Khorramshah.
Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Iraq lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, making it the 20th century's longest conventional war. It was initially referred to in English as the Gulf War prior to the Persian Gulf War of the early 1990s. The Iran–Iraq War began when Iraq invaded Iran via air and land on 22 September 1980. It followed a long history of border disputes, and was motivated by fears that the Iranian Revolution in 1979 would inspire insurgency among Iraq's long-suppressed Shia majority, as well as Iraq's desire to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state. Although Iraq hoped to take advantage of Iran's revolutionary chaos and attacked without formal warning, it made only limited progress into Iran and was quickly repelled; Iran regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982.