Iran's Ahwazi Arab minority: dissent against 'discrimination'
Article by: Mamoon Alabbasi
Saturday 28 February 2015 12:00 UTC
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The plight of Iran's Arab Ahwazi minority and their recent protests in the country's oil-rich southwest region, is being underreported despite serious and systematic discrimination against them by Tehran, exiled members of the community told Middle East Eye.

Arabs make up the majority of what is officially…

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Why does Iran neglect Arabs in oil-rich Ahvaz?
ArabNews

People in the city of Ahvaz — the capital of Khuzestan, which is one of Iran’s wealthiest provinces when it comes to oil and natural gas — have been protesting for days over unbearable pollution and power failures. People can be heard chanting “unemployment, unemployment, unemployment... Iranian fellowmen assist us, assist us.”

Last year, Ahvaz was ranked the most polluted city in the world by…

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USA - By Dr Karim Abdian- For the past 37 years, the Iranian regime has been able to disunite, or generate current disunity and distrust, within the opposition and render it almost irrelevant. But this seems to becoming to an end.
The rights of Iran’s non-Persian nationalities were one of the central themes of a recent mass rally organized by the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), marking a departure from the usual annual program of the Iranian opposition…

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Rights groups condemn recent execution of Kurdish prisoners and call for an immediate moratorium on all executions in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Iranian authorities must immediately put a halt to the execution of Kurdish political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, 22 human rights organizations stated. These organizations also urged for an immediate moratorium on the death penalty and a right to due process and fair and public retrials for…

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Immorality among women is causing a river in Iran to dry up, according to a senior cleric from the Islamic Republic.
Seyyed Youssef Tabatabi-nejad, who leads Friday prayers in Isfahan, encouraged the country’s morality police to crack down on ‘improper veiling’ and suggested women’s immodest clothing was having an impact on the environment.
In a sermon this week, he said: “My office has received photos of women next to the dry Zayandeh-rud River p…

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Interview of Saleh Hamid with Al-Arabiya News channel
4 September 2015
Our dear viewers, God's peace be upon you and his mercy and blessings. Is the issue of Ahwaz in Iran is an issue of
rights or politics?
What is the impact of the nuclear agreement between Iran and the Group of five plus one on this issue? Where are Arabs
from the issue of Ahwaz people?
those who say that the Iranian regime oppresses them due to clinching to their Arab identity? Thes…

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Introduction
Today racism is considered one of the most serious issues that humanity is facing in the world which in our current life regarded as the primary reason for many of the conflicts and clashes in societies, which are made up of an array of ethnicities, religions, and cultures. Nowadays, racism seriously threatens the unity and coherence of national states even those who are in advanced and developed countries such as the United States of…

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visit by activists to Saeed Zeinali’s Home

Iran – The following video shows a group of civil activists at Saeed Zeinali’s father’s home, who has been lost on 9th July 1999. They were this family’s guest, on the occasion of the sixteenth year of Saeed Zeinali’s disappearance.

 

Saeed Zeinali was one of the students who were arrested only a few days after the attack on the dormitory in 1999 and during the past sixteen years, he has had only one phone call to his family.

 

Despite…

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AHRO delegation in Geneva

All practices of the ruling system point to a comprehensive framework of discriminatory actions aimed at cowing the Arab population, assimilating them within the dominant ethnicity, and encouraging their dispersal in other parts of the country.

Intervention of CCRDAI at UN Forum on Minority Issues given by Afnan Azizi

Intervention from Centre for Combating Racism and Discrimination against Arabs in Iran to the United Nations Human Rights Counci…

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ahwazi

Prison sentence of five years to life against Ahwazi activists

Branch one of Islamic revolutionary court in Ahwaz sentenced 4 Ahwazi activists to 5 years to life ,on charges of "establishing an unauthorized organization" , "endangering national security" , "enmity against God" and "corruption ".

 

According to the reports by Ahwazi and Iranian human rights organizations,Hasan Obeydat 36 years old: life in prison,Khaled Ebeydawi 29 years old: 10…

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