Hundreds of “thieves” arrested; mass arrests ahead of election
More than 550 “thieves” have have been arrested in the Arab border town of Al-Mohammarah (Farsi: Khorramshahr)
Letter to Mrs. Ellison, a member of the Great Britain Parliament
Unfortunately , our luck of successful fleeing off our original land have not befallen other members of our
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.
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