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Topic: Arabs of Khuzestan

	Inventory of Conflict and Environment (ICE), Template
		Khuzestan is the only predominantly Arab province of Iran, and also happens to be one of the richest oil producing provinces in the entire country.
		As the Arab population in the region increased, Khuzestan became known as Arabistan (3).
		Three Arab separatist groups claimed responsibility for the attacks; The “Arab Martyrs of Khuzestan,” the “Arab People’s Democratic Front,” and the “Armed Renaissance Group of Ahvaz” (17).
	www.american.edu /ted/ice/khuzestan.htm (2168 words)

	Iran - Semitic Language Groups
		The rural Arabs of Khuzestan tend to be farmers and fishermen.
		Both the urban and the rural Arabs of Khuzestan are intermingled with the Persians, Turks, and Lurs who also live in the province.
		The Arabs in the area stretching from Bushehr to Bandar-e Abbas tend to be Sunnis.
	countrystudies.us /iran/44.htm (780 words)

	Arabs of Khuzestan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Arabs of Khuzestan are one of the ethnic groups of Iran inhabiting the province of Khuzestan.
		Most Khuzestani Arabs are bilingual, speaking Arabic as their mother tongue, and Persian as a second language.
		During the Umayyad period, large groups of Arab nomads from the Hanifa, Tamim, and Abd al-Qays tribes crossed the Persian Gulf and occupied some of the richest Basran territories around Ahvaz and in Fars during the second Islamic civil war in 661-665/680-684 A.D.(see Encyclopaedia Iranica, p.215, under Arab Tribes of Iran).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arabs_of_Khuzestan (1149 words)

	Real men go to Khuzestan : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		At least 50 Arabs were accused as perpetrators of bombings that killed 21 people last April - after an "official" (but unconfirmed) letter was leaked with detailed plans for the ethnic cleansing of Arabs in Khuzestan.
		In a dirt-poor Arab village near Ahvaz, crossed by pipelines supplying crude oil to the huge Abadan refinery (450,000 barrels a day), Bradley saw Iranian Arabs complaining that "we are standing on all of the country's wealth, and yet we get no benefit from it".
		Trying to defuse the situation, Tehran argues that nine of Khuzestan's 17 members of the majlis (parliament) are Arabs, and Arabs are posted in senior positions both in Khuzestan and in Tehran.
	sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1726556 (1226 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Arabs in Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Their affiliation of being Arab seems less decided by race than by whichever sect of Islam they practice (e.g., the Arab population of Khuzestan sided with Iran during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s).
		Both the urban and rural Arabs of Khuzestan are intermingled with the Persians, Turks and Lurs who also live in the province and often intermarry with them.
		Despite this, Iranian Arabs are regarded by themselves and by Iran's other ethnic groups as separate and distinct from non-Arabs.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=63009 (555 words)

	Zoltan Grossman - KHUZESTAN: The First Front in the War on Iran?
		Khuzestan was the seat of the ancient civilization of Elam, with its capital at Susa.
		A London-based Arab exile group claims that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are establishing an exclusive military-industrial zone along the Iraqi border to support infiltration into Basra, is carrying out "ethnic cleansing" of Arab farmers for this Free Zone project, and has conducted large exercises to practice quelling Arab unrest in Khuzestan.
		The Arabs of Khuzestan have long resented Tehran for failing to alleviate chronic poverty and unemployment in the oil-rich province, and for neglecting postwar reconstruction of the bombed-out cities.
	www.mltoday.com /Pages/Commentary/Grossman-Khuzestan.html (2674 words)

	Muslim World Today: Front Page 5192006
		As the lion's share of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine was handed over to Arab nationalism in 1922 with the creation of what would later be renamed Jordan, a more than just partition of the land favoring the Arabs had already been completed between the two nationalisms competing for it.
		They rejected the 1947 division of the remaining 20% of the land left after purely Arab Jordan was created from the rest of it in 1922 because, in Arab eyes, there is no justice other than their own.
		Arabs already got the lion's share of justice in the partition of the original 1920 borders of Palestine.
	www.paktoday.com /mwtoday/live19.htm (859 words)

	Arab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Arabs of the Arabian Peninsula believe that they are descendants of Shem son of Noah based on the writings of the Qur'an, Torah and the Bible.
		Is used for defining the Arabs who are traditionally considered to be descendants of Abraham through his son Ishmael through his son Adnan, and they are known as Adnanite: it is defined of the Arabs who settled in Mecca when Abraham took his Egyptian wife Hagar or (Hajar) and his son Ishmael to Mecca.
		During the 8th and 9th centuries, the Arabs (specifically the Umayyads, and later Abbasids) forged an empire whose borders touched southern France in the west, China in the east, Asia Minor in the north, and the Sudan in the south.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arabs (2688 words)

	Parsa Offenders: Al-Ahwaz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It states that Iranians have oppressed Arabs in the Khuzestan province of Iran and that Khuzestan is really an Arab land.
		Khuzestan is one of the oldest regions of IRAN.
		Indeed Kuroush was an overlord of the Khuzestan region before he was king of the entire Persian empire.
	www.parsaworld.com /Offendersalahwaz.html (154 words)

	Britain and Iran Bombings- Thoughtful analysis - Iran Defence Forum
		Arab nationalism, since the conclusion of World War I, has been encouraged to focus itself against Iran, an ideological proclivity that was taken to its logical extremes by the Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein.
		Today, the Arab Bureau survives in the form of various innocuous-sounding organizations, namely the Arab-British Center, the CAABU (Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding), the Arab-British Charitable Trust, the Labor Middle East Council, the Anglo-Arab Association and (until 1979) MECAS (Middle East Center for Arab Studies).
		All of this is underpinned by the assertion that the Arabs in Khuzestan constitute a majority, yet no valid ethnic statistics have been produced to verify such claims.
	www.irandefence.net /showthread.php?t=344 (3204 words)

	Independent Access to Khuzestan Urged in Wake of Violence by Jim Lobe
		The protests were sparked by the circulation of a seven-year-old letter that was attributed to then-Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi and called for displacing Arab residents in the oil- and gas-rich region, replacing them with ethnic Persians.
		While regional specialists say ethnic Arabs in Khuzestan have long-standing reasons to be angry with the central government, the province's proximity to Iraq and rising tensions between Teheran and Washington over issues ranging from alleged Iranian influence in Iraq to its nuclear program make the government's charges at least superficially plausible.
		Khuzestan's Arabs, who, because of the influx of Persians, now make up only about half of the province's population, suffer economic hardship, disproportionate levels of unemployment, and discrimination.
	www.lewrockwell.com /ips/lobe209.html (1048 words)

	David Eshel News Commentary » KHUZESTAN: Groundwork for WAR ON IRAN? (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Khuzestan is a small part in south west of Iran which was once part of the great and independent government of Elam in ancient times.
		Khuzestan shares a long border with the Shiite Arab populated south of Iraq and Shat-al-Arab, the strategic waterway to the Persian Gulf for both Iraq and Iran.
		Khuzestan, unlike most other provinces in Iran, is inhabited by a number of ethnic minorities estimated at about four million, the majority are Shiite Arabs similar to the Iraqi Shiites in southern Iraq, which are actually bordering with Khuzestan.
	defense-update.com.cob-web.org:8888 /blog/?p=19 (1797 words)

	ThreatsWatch.Org: InBrief: Eight Dead in Iran Bombing
		A government office in Ahvaz, the Sunni Arab-majority capital of the Khuzestan province, was bombed followed shortly by a blast in the streets in front of a nearby bank, killing eight and wounding upwards of 40 others.
		The Khuzestan province in Iran is home to Iran’s largest oil fields and part of the second largest known reserves in the world.
		arabs in the west, baluchis in the east, and kurds in the north.
	inbrief.threatswatch.org /2006/01/eight-dead-in-iran-bombing (1038 words)

	Iran: Appeal case: Land Confiscation and Population Transfer : The case of the Ahwazi Arabs
		Much of the Arab minority in Iran lives in the strategically-important oil-producing Khuzestan province in southern Iran (known as Ahwaz by the Arab community) which adjoins Iraq and this Arab minority is believed to constitute between 3 and 8 per cent of the total population of Iran.
		Historically, the Arab community has been marginalized and discriminated against in various ways including through restrictions on access to employment, to adequate housing, social services, and education, and denials of their right to equal participation in cultural activities.
		Expropriation of land belonging to or occupied by members of the Arab minority is reportedly so widespread that it appears to amount to an unofficial policy aimed at dispossessing Arabs of their lands.
	www.amnestyusa.org /regions/middleeast/document.do?id=ENGMDE130602006 (1468 words)

	OmniNerd - News: Terrorism in Iran??
		The Khuzestan province of Iran lies in the southwest corner of the country and borders Iraq.
		Khuzestan is home to the majority of Arabs that live in Iran.
		The issue is further complicated by the fact that up to half of the Iranian Arabs living in Khuzestan are Sunni...at least that's what Al Jazeera says.
	www.omninerd.com /2005/06/15/news/180 (286 words)

	Arab Music in Khuzestan Province of Iran (Persia)
		Though there is no doubt about the antiquity of music in Khuzestan province of Iran (Persia), but it is very unfortunate that its history is still in dispute.
		But the folk music of Khuzestan is still unknown and I hope this short article will help to the promotion of this important and special genre of music among those people who are interested in oriental music.
		Since in Alvaniyeh music, the singer mentions to the poets of the poems, therefore the name of many unknown poets have not been forgotten, particularly in villages that poor poets have not been able to publish their books of their works.
	nasehpour.tripod.com /peyman/id77.html (730 words)

	KRSI: Radio Sedaye Iran راديو صدای ايران
		Few people think that the offending letter, which proposed measures to reduce the proportion of Arabs in Khuzestan, was the work of the official whose signature—forged, he insists—it carried.
		Missing from their statement was any acknowledgement that the riots could serve as a warning that Iran, for all the stability of its ethnic Persian heartland, remains vulnerable to dissatisfied minorities on the periphery.
		The answer is that the Arabs there feel deprived of their rightful share of profits from Khuzestan's hugely profitable oil and gas.
	www.krsi.net /news/detail.asp?NewsID=1151 (575 words)

	The U.S., Iran, & Khuzestan
		or centuries Khuzestan was the seat of the ancient civilization of Elam, with its capital at Susa.
		A London-based Arab exile group claimed that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were establishing an exclusive military-industrial zone along the Iraqi border to support infiltration into Basra, were carrying out “ethnic cleansing” of Arab farmers for this Free Zone project, and had conducted large exercises to practice quelling Arab unrest in Khuzestan.
		Though Tehran denounced the letter as a forgery, Arab youths took to the streets of Ahvaz and clashed with police—5 were killed and over 400 Arabs were arrested in a crackdown after the riots.
	zmagsite.zmag.org /Jan2006/grossman0106.html (2485 words)

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
		So, the real place where justice for Arabs has not yet been addressed and still remains to be achieved is in - hold onto your seats - Iran itself.
		To deal with this "Arab problem", Iran has ruthlessly suppressed any manifestations of Arab nationalism by any and all means necessary.
		Ahmadinejad refuses to acknowledge any of this, claims all Israeli Jews were from Europe (tell that to Israel's Iranian-born president) and the like; yet, he answers the political aspirations of millions of non-Iranians living on his own soil only with massacre and repression.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /article.php3?id=6230 (945 words)

	POLITICS-IRAN: Independent Access to Khuzestan Urged in Wake of Violence
		New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) also called for the immediate release of Yusuf Azizi Banitaraf, an Iranian journalist of Arab descent who was arrested in Teheran Apr. 25 during a press conference to call attention to government abuses in Khuzestan by the independent Centre for the Defence of Human Rights.
		Because the province was closed to foreign media, rights groups and others have had to depend on accounts by the government, residents, and other sources with first-hand knowledge of what took place.
		While regional specialists say ethnic Arabs in Khuzestan have long-standing reasons to be angry with the central government, the province's proximity to Iraq and rising tensions between Teheran and Washington over issues ranging from alleged Iranian influence in Iraq to its nuclear programme make the government's charges at least superficially plausible.
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=28625 (1088 words)

	Scoop: Family Of Refugees Arrested, Injured In Iran
		Khuzestan, Iran: Amnesty International calls for an end to the cycle of violence in Khuzestan and an investigation into the root causes of recent unrest.....
		The Arab community in Iran is around 3% of the total whereas Persians are said to account for around 50%.
		Amnesty also criticised the regime in Tehran, saying: "The cycle of violence in Khuzestan must end to avoid further loss of life, injury, arbitrary arrest and damage to private and state property." It also called on the government to resume water supplies to Arab areas, which had been cut off to punish the Arab population.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0505/S00149.htm (1685 words)

	Minorities At Risk (MAR) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Nevertheless, President Khatemi’s moderate regime (in power since 1997) appears not to have singled out Arabs as a potential threat (unlike other Iranian ethnopolitical groups such as Bahai, Christians, or Kurds).
		Yet, because of the Iranian government ’s centralization policies, it appears unlikely that the Iranian Arab desire for a measure of autonomy will be recognized anytime soon.
		The main factor that differentiates them from Iran's Persian speaking majority is their racial distinction, and that they speak one of several dialects of Arabic (CULDIFX1/2 = 2).
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/irnarab.htm (558 words)

	[FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great :: View topic - Separatists Discuss Future of Iran
		Taie is the author of The Arabs of Khuzestan and Iran: A socio-political History, both of which promote separatist ideologies regarding Ahwaz and Iran.
		, the indigenous Arabs of Khuzestan in Iran.
		Khuzestan remains one of Iran's most militarised provinces and is the spring-board for Iranian-backed terrorist activities in Iraq, including kidnappings, assassinations and bombings.
	activistchat.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7106 (5162 words)

	Iran Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		TEHRAN, May 3--Defense Minister Vice Admiral Ali Shamkhani said on Monday Iranian Arabs of Khuzestan were the main defenders of the country’s borders throughout the 1980-88 Iraq-imposed war.
		Praising the Iranian Arabs as “soldiers of the Islamic Revolution“ long before the victory of the revolution in 1979, he said, “That attitude is definitely alive among the Iranian Arabs,“ IRNA reported.
		The defense minister noted that recent incidents in Khuzestan were quite insignificant and many factors gave rise to their occurrence, “but before adopting any decision to boycott Al Jazeera or close its offices in Iran permanently, we need to solve our own cultural obstacles and problems“.
	www.iran-daily.com /1384/2265/html/national.htm (1390 words)

	Al-Ahwaz (Khuzestan) Political Organizations (Iran)
		The Parliament of Ahwaz (or Arabistan) in exile decided in 1999 on this flag as the flag of Ahwaz, with the agreement of all Arab parties of the region of Ahwaz in exile, except the Arabic Front [for the] Liberation [of] Ahwaz (AFLA) that was opposed by political reasons.
		The flag means that the inhabitants of the region of Ahwaz are Muslims; the star has eight points, one for every revolution where the people of Ahwaz has taken part.
		The colors coincide with those of another two Arab peoples in search of freedom, specifically the Palestinian and the Saharan people, who arouse special feelings of brotherhood and solidarity among the people of Ahwaz.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ir}ahwaz.html (676 words)

	Iran Daily
		AHVAZ, Khuzestan, April 22--A massive gathering of Ahvazi residents held a solidarity rally on Friday to condemn the conspiracies of enemies.
		Ethnic Arabs were among thousands of Iranians who joined a rally against “foreign plots“ in the sensitive southwestern oil province of Khuzestan, a week after clashes between Arab protestors and security forces there, IRNA reported.
		“The Iranian Arabs of Khuzestan have proven their devotion to Islam and are bound to safeguard the Islamic Republic,“ he said.
	www.iran-daily.com /1384/2256/html/national.htm (1743 words)

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