IRANIAN REGIME EXECUTED YOUNG AL AHWAZI ARABS,AND THE CRIMES AGAINST THEM.AHWAZI ARABS ARE AN ARAB NATIONALIST AND SEPARATIST WHOSE GOAL IS TO ESTABLISH AN INDEPENDENT STATE CALLED AHVAZ IN IRAN.

Since the Persian army entered Muhammarah City in 1925 in a bid to remove the Al-Kaabi state and consolidate Iran's control on Ahwaz, Iranian authorities have been pursuing a systematic policy to wipe out the Arab identity of the Ahwazi Arab people. This policy includes changing the demographics of the region by bringing in non-Arab people and changing the Arab names of cities, towns and rivers, forcing Arab Ahwazis out of the region through oppressive security measures and continuous crack down on Ahwazi activists, and even buying the loyalty of some Arab tribal leaders.

In 1925, the British had control of Ahwaz, known then as Arabistan renamed by Iran as Khuzestan after the colonialists bartered the Arab fertile land for interest in the rich oil and gas fields. Ahwaz, thirty-two times the size of Lebanon, had a population of 10 million made up of mostly Arab Sunnis and Shia with Christians, Kurds, Turkish Azeris, Turkmen and Baluchis minorities. Ninety years of Iranian oppression, murder, confiscating land and property, and building settlements for Farsi families have reduced the Ahwazi population to a half.Al-Ahwaz region of Iran is currently witnessing a wave of mass protests and demonstrations demanding freedom and an end to the Iranian regime’s multifaceted oppression of the Ahwazi people, which has been continuous since Iran first occupied the region by the use of military force.Ahwazi Arabs are among the most brutally oppressed peoples in the Middle East. The population of the region in the south and southwest of Iran totals around 10 million, with the people united by race, culture and language. The Ahwazi Arab dialect strongly resembles the dialect in neighboring Iraq. The majority of Ahwazis are Shia and Sunni Muslim, although there are other sects and creeds, including Christian and Mandaean.Ahwaz is a Persian-occupied Arab country located in the north and the east of the Arabian Gulf to the east of Shat Al-Arab waterway which has been occupied by Iran for more than eight decades and renamed ‘Khuzestan.’The entire territory of Ahwaz, covering 324,000 square kilometers, is bounded to the west by Iraq, to the south-west by the Arabian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula and to the north, east and south-east by the Zagros Mountains, the natural boundary between Ahwaz and Iran. With an Arab population of ten million, Ahwaz is among the most resource-rich territories occupied by Iran, holding more than 80 percent of the country’s oil and gas resources.The region has three major rivers, the Karoon, Jarrahi and Karkheh, which play a vital role in the lives of its people, with most Ahwazis long economically dependent on the three waterways for their income from both fishing and agriculture, with the waters used to irrigate the rich arable land.Historically the Semitic Elami tribes, the first known peoples of the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq, settled on Ahwaz’s riverbanks and valleys, establishing a great civilization, particularly the ancient city of Susa, now known as Shush.Since the initial annexation of Ahwaz by Iran, then known as Persia, 90 years ago, the humanitarian situation of the Ahwazi Arab people has steadily worsened, with the level of murderous repression by the current regime rising daily, extending to the level of systemic ethnic cleansing as policy, forcible eviction of the Ahwazi indigenous people, and the construction of exclusive apartheid-style settlements for non- Ahwazi, non-Arab settlers; these settlers are offered multiple economic and social incentives to move there and given guarantees of a promising future, while the Ahwazi Arab indigenous peoples are further marginalised, alienated and denied the most basic rights in every field.Historically the catastrophic suffering of the Ahwazi people first began after Reza Khan, the then-ruler of Persia, now called Iran, and invaded the Emirate of Al-Ahwaz in 1925, overthrowing the last independent Arab ruler of the region, Sheikh Khazaal Alkaabi, who was subsequently imprisoned in Tehran for 10 years before being murdered in 1936 by strangulation on the orders of Reza Khan.The current theocratic Iranian regime has imposed authoritarian rule on Al-Ahwaz region by the harshest measures, in a bid to isolate the Ahwazi Arab people from their origins and their historical association with the Arab nations, simultaneously imposing an absolute media blackout on any reporting of the suffering of Ahwazis.As is widely known, the Iranian regime provides no official statistics on the number of Ahwazi Arabs in Iran, but studies conducted by Ahwazi activists confirm that the current total Ahwazi population stands at between 8 and 10 million. American historian William Theodore Strunk in his work about Ahwaz: The Reign of Sheikh Khazal ibn Jabir and the Suppression of the Principality of Arabistan.

 Ahwazi Community in the UK demonstrated  against the persecution of the Arabs by the Iranian regime. Following the protest a group of Ahwazi activists.Abdulrahman Al-Ahwazi, from the Patriotic Arab Democratic Movement in Al-Ahwaz, highlighted the environmental crisis in the region which caused by building water dams in the area of Al-ahwaz (Khuzestan). Al-Ahwazi stated that climate in the province of Al-ahwaz is dependent on the main rivers such Karoun, Karkheh and Jarrahi. The Iranian authority built more than 40 water dams, and 36 are under construction while 176 are planned to be built in future. Consequently, these dams led to dry international marshlands such Fallahiya and Hur-alazim and disruption of biodiversity.

Iran was the first to exercise gruesome apartheid. White Rulers (British descents) of South Africa rushed to the new found oppression college and enrolled thousands of potential terrorists and military personal. The Zionist Organization also had studiedapartheid curriculum in Iran, graduating with high grades and cloned the repressive college and established branches in Israel. Iran’s psychopath deans established institutions In Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and other Gulf and North Africa countries. No one should wonder anymore which is the biggest terrorist state in the world. Since Khomeini’s 1979 Revolution, Iran has exercised the worse apartheid practices with intentions never to stop. Ahwaz territories hold 80% of Iran’s oil and gas;to the west of which is Iraq, and to the south-west is the Arabian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula; the Zagros Mountains to the north, east and south-east sit between Iran and the Arab territories. Ahwaz wealth didn’t just stop at oil and gas. It has the rich arable land; three major rivers, the Karoon, Jarrahi and Karkheh played a vital role in the livelihood of the people, provided agriculturally and fishing revenues until the apartheid regime redirected the three rivers to Iran’s territories. Only one percent of the oil and gas revenues returned to the indigents.Iran’s Mullahs blocked all possible world connection and communication with Ahwaz territories to mask the daily murderous repression. The ethnic cleansing policy routinely exercised by settlers, mullahs and soldiers; forcible eviction and bulldozing homes and properties go on like an endless marathon. The indigents live without clean water; electricity and food are scarce; most of them live in tents and water mains. World human rights and humanitarian organizations have said little and did little to expose the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed for 90 years and counting. The Arab neighbors of the same skin and language also have done little.If we compare Israel’s apartheid against Iran’s using skin burn gauge, the Israeli repression measures one degree; Iran’s gruesome repression means third degree.Historically, Ahwazis belong to Elami Arab tribes who settled in these vast Arab territories four thousands of years and established a high civilization in the ancient city Susa, now known Shush. In 639, Iran came under the Muslim Rule. Ahwaz changed hands between Arabs and Persians multiple times from the 15th century to the second half of the nineteen century.Pre-Islamic Iran’s art, education, literature, poetry and philosophy stayed at particle progress. Under the Islamic Rule, the country embraced Arabic language for 200 hundred years, putting the Farsi language on hold. Iran saw a notable surge of great thinkers, philosophers, scholars, poets and writers. Most people don’t know that the works of these great minds were all produced in Arabic and continued beyond the two hundred years. The present regime in Iran denies these facts. Their curriculum, media and propaganda mullahs credit Iran for all Arab progress before and during the Islamic Rule. Iran has gone as far as forging the principles of Islam, classifying all Arabs and Sunnis infidels. Ancient Persia incubated hatred and venom against Arabs; the Romans carried the great terror for centuries; then the West expanded wars to reach the region and are still doing it. Zionism is the latest by-product that had nurtured and raised traitors like Assad family, the Iraqi and Houthi Mullahs; it also nurtured and raised Sunni, Shia and Christian collaborators. These traitors remain far worse than land mines.The region where the Ahwazi Arab community is most present in Iran has been troubled by a deep economic crisis that has hindered its indigenous Arab population from securing its most basic needs.Until a century ago, Arab Ahwaz was a primarily autonomous region in Iran until the Pahlavi monarchy took over and made an effort to end ethnic autonomy across Iran in 1925. The Ahwaz region is responsible for some of Iran's biggest oil and gas fields, and some of the most nourishing and arable lands for Iran's agricultural industry. Despite these valuable resources, the region's economy continues to struggle, and the indigenous population see little of the rewards of this wealth. They are often the victims of untreated illness, hunger and deprivation.The Iranian regime systematically denies Ahwazi Arabs jobs in the local oil, gas and petrochemical industries. The government has also constructed a multitude of dams diverting water from Arab areas to Persian areas such as the Isfahan, Yazd, Kerman, and Qom provinces. These dams have only served to worsen the devastation from a drought currently plaguing the region, destroying the local agriculture, fishing, and palm industries.The unemployment rate among the Ahwazi Arab youth has now risen to 81%. Iran's general director of cooperatives, work, and social welfare, stated that 5% of Ahwazis looking for jobs have pre-high school education, 55% of those seeking work only completed secondary school, and 45% of those Ahwazi job seekers hold university degrees.The Ahwazi quest for independence remains a source of growing concern for the Iranian regime because of the ethnic diversity of the country where, in addition to Arabs, the mosaic includes Persians, Azeris, Kurds and Baluchs and others. Each of these ethnic groups retain their own traditions and culture that have extensions beyond the Iranian border. In addition, several organizations are seeking to restore the national gains that these ethnic groups lost in different historical eras, including the Arab national identity of  Ahwaz where relevant organizations run active political arms beyond the control of the Iranian regime. The activity of these organizations are well-received by human rights groups interested in championing the causes of minorities suffering oppression in home countries.Iran's concern emanates from the fact that raising such issues negatively impacts the stability of the state, its unity and territorial integrity. The continuity of the Ahwazi movement and difficulties hindering the Iranian regime's attempt for suppression will tempt other ethnicities to follow suit. This is particularly important because the state in Iran used to praise the "Islamic" revolutionary regime for its stability, strength and ability to assimilate and accommodate for all the country's ethnicities, despite the fact that such events and their aftermath stand in stark contrast with the claims that the  Iranian regime is attempting to promote.This is being further affirmed by senior Iranian officials. These officials blame the interference of Iran's foreign enemies for instigating ethnic strife as part of "conspiracy theory" mantra that the Iranians are good at promoting whenever they seek to mobilize the support of the crowds for the regime on the pretext that the state is facing external threats to its very existence.This was made clear by a special adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a press conference on 9 May 2015 in Tehran. Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi accused "17 regional and trans-regional intelligence services affiliated to the Arab and western states” of running operations “in support of ethnic separatist groups to sow discord among the local people” in the south-western province of Khuzestan (Ahwaz). The top Iranian military aide expressed his concern that the ongoing war in Syria and Iraq would spill over to "Khuzestan" endangering the territorial integrity of Iran. On 2 September 2014,  Imam of Ahwaz city, Ahmed Reza Hajati, stressed that 35 intelligence services run operations in the province. The cleric's claims show how concerned the Iranian regime is about any movement in this region (Ahwaz), and also show that its concerns are persistent and not associated with a particular happening.

After trials human right activists described as grossly unfair Iran has executed members of its Ahwazi Arab minority."The Iranian authority informed their families that they were executed by hanging and in secret ... The AHRO condemns this criminal act against these activists who did not have fair trial.Ahwazi Arabs in Iran often face state discrimination in areas including education, employment politics and culture. In recent years, many members of the community have taken to the streets to protest at the discrimination against them.

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