Unrest' is growing in Al-Ahwaz (renamed Khuzestan by Iran) and in Balochistan, with the Persian 'empire' facing Arab rage domestically as regionally... 'Unrest grows in Iran’s Khuzestan' #Iran, 31-03-2015: 'Iranian security forces have reportedly scrambled to suppress protests by ethnic Arabs in the oil-rich Khuzestan province, which has witnessed unrest following the self-immolation of a street vendor. “Iranian police attacked protest gatherings in the cities of Shush to the north of the Ahvaz region and al-Khafajiyya (Susangerd in Farsi) in the west, arresting dozens and leading them away to unknown locations,” local sources told Al-Arabiya television in a report published Monday. According to the Saudi-owned station, the Ahvaz Human Rights Organization (AHRO) said in a statement that “Iranian police officers and security force members opened fire at random and arrested dozens during an attack on a funeral procession in the city of Shush […] on Sunday.” The human rights group added that Arab youths at the funeral had “shouted revolutionary slogans calling for an Arab uprising in Ahvaz against policies of racial discrimination […], marginalization, the spread of poverty and unemployment, and attempts to crush the region’s Arab identity.

Unrest' is growing in Al-Ahwaz (renamed Khuzestan by Iran) and in Balochistan, with the Persian 'empire' facing Arab rage domestically as regionally... 'Unrest grows in Iran’s Khuzestan' #Iran, 31-03-2015: 'Iranian security forces have reportedly scrambled to suppress protests by ethnic Arabs in the oil-rich Khuzestan province, which has witnessed unrest following the self-immolation of a street vendor. “Iranian police attacked protest gatherings in the cities of Shush to the north of the Ahvaz region and al-Khafajiyya (Susangerd in Farsi) in the west, arresting dozens and leading them away to unknown locations,” local sources told Al-Arabiya television in a report published Monday. According to the Saudi-owned station, the Ahvaz Human Rights Organization (AHRO) said in a statement that “Iranian police officers and security force members opened fire at random and arrested dozens during an attack on a funeral procession in the city of Shush […] on Sunday.” The human rights group added that Arab youths at the funeral had “shouted revolutionary slogans calling for an Arab uprising in Ahvaz against policies of racial discrimination […], marginalization, the spread of poverty and unemployment, and attempts to crush the region’s Arab identity.

by Abdulmohsen Mohammad Saadeddin



March 31, 2015 at 04:27PM

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