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How much did Karkheh Dam cost to build?

The Karkheh Dam is the 127 m high earthfill dam, 3,030 m long, on the Karkheh River in Khuzestan, Iran, with a reservoir of about 5.9 billion cubic metres (7.6 billion in a 2000 trade report), irrigation for 320,000 hectares and three hydropower units, built from 1992 mainly by Iranian companies including the Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters, with impounding started in March 2000 and civil works scheduled to finish by mid-2001. International Water Power wrote in September 2000 that the total project costs would then reach 622 million US dollars, very low for a project of this size, while Wikipedia gives a construction cost of 700 million dollars.