Editing Shatt al-Arab (section)

==Naming==
The river is also known in Iraq as the Dijla al-Awara (دجلة العوراء) and in Iran as the Arvand Rud (Persian: اروندرود, lit. 'Swift River'). 

The Persian epic poem ''[[Shahnameh]]'' (written between {{circa|977–1010 CE}}) and many other works of [[Middle Persian literature]] use the name ''Arvand'' ({{Langx|fa|اروند|label=none}}) for the [[Tigris–Euphrates river system|Tigris]], the confluent of the Shatt al-Arab.<ref name="Iranica2">M. Kasheff, ''[[Encyclopædia Iranica]]'': [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/arvand-rud Arvand-Rud]. – Retrieved on 18 October 2007.</ref> Iranians also used this name specifically to designate the Shatt al-Arab during the later [[Pahlavi Iran|Pahlavi period]], and continue to do so since the [[Iranian Revolution|1979 Iranian Revolution]].<ref name="Iranica2" />