Abadan Island
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Abadan Island is an island in Iran
. It is the site of the city of Abadan. The island hosted Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's Abadan Refinary, around which Mohammad Mossadegh's nationalization movement was centered.
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
. It is the site of the city of Abadan. The island hosted Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's Abadan Refinary, around which Mohammad Mossadegh's nationalization movement was centered.