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Arab market destroyed by Iranian forces while native Arab unemployment soars
Keyan Market in Ahwaz City, which is an important centre of commerce for impoverished Arabs, was burned down
Ahwazi Arab executed in Karoon Prison
The Iranian regime executed an Ahwazi Arab on 14 February, four years after he was sentenced to death by a 
Iranian regime hiding Arab bodies in unmarked graves
The mass grave of four Ahwazi Arabs executed last year has been identified by an ethnic Bakhtiari resident of 
Iran responds to Al-Azhar conference with anti-Arab repression
The January conference at Al-Azhar
expressed solidarity with Ahwazi Arabs
Iranian police and the intelligence service have begun a campaign of arrests of Arab activists across Al-Ahwaz 
Iran’s repression against Arab Sunni converts
Members of the IRGC are involved in anti-Sunni repressionAn alleged “Wahhabi sect” has been closed down in
Mandeans of Ahwaz appeal against persecution
The Mandean community has released the following statement, asserting its right to freedom of worship and criticising endemic
discrimination. The Mandeans, like the Ahwazi Arabs, are indigenous to southwest Iran. Followers of a Gnostic religion committed to non-violence, they originate from the followers of John the Baptist, pre-dating both Christianity and Islam, and continue to practice ancient baptismal rites. During the period of Arab self-rule before 1925, they were allowed to worship as they please and were able to live and work freely, often as goldsmiths and merchants. Although many Muslims recognise them as “followers of the Book”, today they endure violent persecution, particularly by Shi’ite militias in post-Saddam Iraq and under the current Iranian regime. They risk becoming extinct as they are forced into religious conversion.
discrimination. The Mandeans, like the Ahwazi Arabs, are indigenous to southwest Iran. Followers of a Gnostic religion committed to non-violence, they originate from the followers of John the Baptist, pre-dating both Christianity and Islam, and continue to practice ancient baptismal rites. During the period of Arab self-rule before 1925, they were allowed to worship as they please and were able to live and work freely, often as goldsmiths and merchants. Although many Muslims recognise them as “followers of the Book”, today they endure violent persecution, particularly by Shi’ite militias in post-Saddam Iraq and under the current Iranian regime. They risk becoming extinct as they are forced into religious conversion.Security clamp-down, executions imminent?
Sources in Ahwaz City report an intensification in security, prompting speculation that five Ahwazi Arab political 
Mothers banned from appealing against executions
The mothers of five Ahwazi Arab political prisoners facing execution were banned from meeting Ayatollah 
Global condemnation mounts over Ahwazi executions
World policy chiefs, United Nations experts and human rights organisations have united to condemn the planned
EU condemns death sentences in Iran for five Arabs
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Tuesday urged Iran to commute death sentences against five members
