The salt water of the gulf now pushes up the Faw peninsula. Last year, for the first time in memory, it extended beyond Basra, Iraq's biggest port city, and even Qurna, where the two rivers meet.

海湾的盐水向法奥半岛推进，去年，记忆里第一次，海水漫入了伊拉克最大的港口城市巴士拉，甚至到了两河交汇的科纳地区。

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Iraqis complain that, were it not for sanctions, foreign ships would be overflowing from cramped Umm Qasr to the port of Basra, 80 kilometres up the Shatt al-Arab waterway from the Gulf.

ECONOMIST: The Gulf

It certainly does not lay claim, as dreamers of a unified Greater Kurdistan do, to a fantastical spur of land that would jut across south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria to reach the Mediterranean, plus another tongue of territory stretching south-eastwards to let Kurds dip their toes in the Persian Gulf beyond Basra.

ECONOMIST: Iraqi Kurdistan

The residents of Basra, an important center of Iraq's Shiite population, staged an uprising after the Gulf War of 1991.

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