1. During the 1980–88 Iran–Iraq War, both sides deployed J-6 fighter jets.

2. The three-floor building of Abadan's Azadi Hotel was reconstructed two times after Iran-Iraq War.

3. (July) Iran announces acceptance of UN resolution calling for cease-fire in eight-year-old Iran-Iraq war.

4. During the Iran–Iraq War of 1980 to 1988, Iraq employed quantities of chemical weapons against Iranian ground forces.

5. The civilian population of the city dropped close to zero during the eight years of the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988).

6. Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying Blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war

7. With the start of the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988), a second wave of inhabitants fled the city, especially during the Iraqi air offensives on the capital.

8. Just two years later, Abadan and the adjoining port city of Khorramshahr were shelled by the invading Iraqi army and effectively destroyed during the Iran–Iraq war (1980–88), which scattered their population of over 600,000 as refugees across Iran and abroad.