by Willem Floor.

This was the nucleus of what would become the city of Abadan, as the site of the refinery was commonly called by those working there as well as by the British in their reports. It was this Persianized name that became commonly used and accepted and became the new city’s official name in 1935.

by Mattin Biglari.

During that most momentous period of Iranian oil politics – that of the oil nationalisation movement in 1951 – Abadan was central in the national imagination.