Ahwazi Arabs in Iran, struggling for independence and sovereignty from successive regimes’ oppression for 92 years to date, have long been the subject of virulent racism, both by the current regime and by its predecessors, whose supremacist anti-Arab bigotry is one feature that has not changed, regardless of the rulers.
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Iran’s Revolution In Waiting
A comparison of recent events in the Middle East with popular revolutions that occurred in Eastern Europe in 1989-1990 reveals a variety of illuminating parallels.
Read MoreMore Than 30 Arrested As Freedom Protests Sweep Across Arab Ahwaz Region In Iran
More than 30 people were brutally arrested in Ahwaz in Iran on Monday, the second day of Eid al-Fitr, after courageous Ahwazi Arabs held peaceful demonstrations in towns, cities, and villages across the region, demanding freedom and human rights and protesting against the systemic oppression and injustice which generations of Ahwazis have now endured under successive regimes for 92 years.
Read MoreAhwazis’ financial woes worsening as Iran’s economy collapses
Ahwazi Arab workers in Iran, already struggling to survive on subsistence pay, are demanding wage increases as the country’s galloping inflation rates and soaring price increases put even basic foodstuffs out of reach, leaving many families to go hungry.
Read MoreTehran’s criminal policies paved the way for another Ahwazi child’s death
In a tragic incident that happens far too often, a 3-year-old Arab child named Ali Borwayeh fell into an open–unprotected–sewer canal near his home in Zarqan neighbourhood, a suburb of Ahwaz city.
Read MoreAhwazi workers protest over dismissals, demand 5 months of withheld pay
On June 13, dozens of Ahwazi workers gathered in front of the 8th District municipality headquarters in Ahwaz to protest 5 months’ worth of salary withholdings. Ahwazi Arab workers congregated at the main gate of the building demanding municipal officials expedite payment in full of wages owed to them.
Read MoreThe Centre Against Racism in Iran’s statement concerning recent revolutionary court’s unfair sentences issued against three Ahwazi civil rights activists
According to the credible source, three Ahwazi civil rights activists have been discriminately sentenced by Branch 4 of Ahwaz Revolutionary Court to one-year imprisonment after they spent one and half month in solitary confinement inside intelligence security headquarter in Ahwaz city.
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