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  1. Battle fought in S Iraq 637. A Muslim Arab
  2. force defeated a larger Zoroastrian Persian
  3. army and ended the Sassanian Empire. The
  4. defeat is still resented in Iran, where
  5. Muslim Arab nationalism threatens to break up
  6. the Iranian state.
  7.