As pollution caused by war is of great importance in today’s world, lots of studies have been done in this relation. Widespread use of weapons such as lead particles, explosives, pneumatic bombardment, cannon balls, chemical weapons and chemical, microbial bombs, etc will definitely be followed by environmental destructive effects. Nowadays, damage to the environment is used by the parties involved as a military strategy. Pollution problems created by military activities have plagued a lot of nations. The war between Iran and Iraq also is not an exception and it caused a lot of damages to the environment. Unfortunately, after the war and clearing the occupied territories, the lands are used for agriculture, aquaculture and other cases without investigation in terms of soil and water pollution state and the products enter the market and this can result in serious problems. To survey the rate of soils chemical pollution in relation to heavy metals, (based on the occupation period and also the clearings done) the surrounding area of Khorramshahr was divided into 3 regions and the sampling was done in 2 depths of 0-30 and 30-60 centimetres by a manual ogre. All physical and chemical tests, and also the amount of heavy metals common in military compounds including lead, cobalt, copper, chromium, manganese, nickel, iron, zinc and cadmium were measured in samples. Then, through factorial sequential design and Tukey test, the results were compared with each other. In comparison of the results with standard level and also the rate of these metals in non-polluted soils, severe contamination, in terms of cadmium was observed. Of course, the amount of chromium was in standard range but in comparison with the amounts of this metal in non-polluted soils, concentration of this metal is too high and can be dangerous in long-term. Therefore, first of all, people should be made aware of the dangers resulting from this pollution and with creating other jobs; agriculture and animal husbandry should be avoided in these areas. In addition, in long term it should be attempted to eliminate pollutants in the soil of Khorramshahr through common methods specially phtoremediation.

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