Khosravi, Kermanshah
Khosravi is a village in, and the capital of, Alvand Rural District of the Central District of Qasr-e Shirin County, Kermanshah province, Iran.
History
On 10 May 1992, an unidentified number of Iraqi and Iranian POWs were exchanged at Khosravi border; on 19 May 1993, another 200 Iraqi POWs were released there; and on 18 August 1995, approximately 100 Iraqi POWs were released near the Iran/Iraq border of Mundharieh-Khosravi. In October 1995, Iran and Iraq agreed to exchange the remains of the troops killed from both sides during the war via Khosravi border crossing. Another POW exchange occurred in March 2003.The first group of Iranian religious tourists left for Iraq on 15 August 1998 via Khosravi after 20 years of border closure to pilgrims. Prior to 2003, Khosravi was the sole official and active border crossing between Iran and Iraq.
2026 Iran massacres
During the 2025–2026 Iranian protests, Iran International reported that on 2 January 2026, Iraqi militias affiliated with the Iranian government recruited forces to assist Iranian security forces in suppressing protests in Iran. The troops were reportedly transported through border crossings including Khosravi.Demographics
Ethnicity
The village is populated by Kurds.Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 11 in 5 households. The following census in 2011 counted 32 people in 13 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 52 people in 11 households. It was the most populous village in its rural district.Infrastructure
Transport
Roads
Road 48, or "Karbala Highway," having roadside tree planting as a distinctive feature, ends here on the Iranian side. It then joins Highway 5 on the Iraqi side. In the year 2000 officials of the Iranian Roads and Transportation Ministry and their Iraqi counterparts reached an agreement for the transit of passenger and cargo on the Kermanshah-Khosravi Road as part of land transportation link between the two countries. The resurfacing of 4.2 km of the return lanes of the 10th section of the Karbala highway situated between Qasr-e Shirin and Khosravi began on 6 June 2022. This section is a divided highway using guard rails. Khosravi is considered to be the end of the Asian Highway Route 2, which goes all the way to Singapore.Border terminal
The Khosravi border terminal was inaugurated in March 2002 with a capacity of 10,000 travelers per day. Construction work for the border terminal had begun in 1998. The terminal comprises a customs office as well as passenger and cargo corridors. It was announced as the largest land border terminal in Iran and the middle east and still is. The border is known as Manzarieh/Munthrya on the Iraqi side of the border. Two 3-star hotels were opened in 2011 to accommodate mainly Iranian religious tourists crossing the border. In 2013, 2,000 Iranian pilgrims crossed the Khosravi border terminal to reach Iraq every day, according to the then governor of the Iranian city of Qasr-e Shirin. This number was 3,000 for Iraqi pilgrims crossing into Iran in September 2019.Khosravi border terminal, 19 km to the southwest of Qasr-e Shirin, mostly overlooks and interacts with the Arab region of Iraq and is open from 7 AM to 4:30 PM, unlike Parviz border terminal, closely located to the north of the county center and mainly in contact with the Kurdish region of Iraq. It is open 24 hours a day. According to the latest figures, in the first three months of the Iranian solar year 1402, the number of people entering the country was 27,315 and the number of exists stood at 23,577. These numbers show a significant increase compared to the same period of the year before.