Iran’s wave of arrests widens following pipeline explosion allegations
The Iranian regime has used a recent militant attack on a pipeline to widen arrests of Ahwazi Arabs with at least arrested this morning (18 November), including a prominent poet. The latest arrests confirm that the attack is being used by the authorities to frame and punish innocent people and non-violent activists, including those who use traditional cultural means to express Arab sentiments
Arrests in Shush following pipeline explosion
The Iranian regime has rounded up a number of men in the Khalaf Al-Moslem area near Shush as it seeks to combat a growing armed insurgency among members of the persecuted and deprived Ahwazi Arab community.
Arrests at funeral for Ahwazi poet
Iranian security forces have detained dozens of Ahwazi Arabs at the funeral of Ahwazi poet Sattar al-Sayahi, who died in mysterious circumstances two weeks after his release from detention for questioning.
Arab activists widely believe the poet, popularly known as Abu Surror, was assassinated. The authorities had attempted to prevent him from involvement in a variety of Arab cultural activities.
Hundreds of Ahwazi Arab mourners turned out to Abu Surror’s funeral where they expressed their sorrow and anger at his death. Clashes erupted between the mourners and the paramilitary forces of the Bassij as the funeral became an expression of opposition against the regime’s anti-Arab policies.
Majlis: proposed final administrative annihilation of Al-Ahwaz
The Ahwazi Arab homeland will be broken up further into new provinces, if member of parliament for Behbahan 
Majlis member: anti-Arab discrimination is causing poverty
Abadan’s member of parliament Mohammad Saeed Ansari has hit out against discrimination against ‘native’ workers.
Ahwaz sugar workers reduced to slavery and poverty
Workers from the Ahwaz Sugar Refinery this week staged protests over months of unpaid wages as an 
Ahwazi speaks of massacre of his family at tribunal
Ahwazi Arab refugee Jalil Sharhani spoke of the massacre of 40 members of his family at a Hague tribunal on Iran’s
Two Ahwazis arrested by Iranian intelligence
Iranian intelligence arrested two Ahwazi Arabs in Hamidiya City this week, according to a report by the Ahwazna 
Ahwaz militants ‘sabotage Iranian gas pipeline’
Ahwazi Arab militants have claimed responsibility for the sabotage of an Iranian gas pipeline facility using 
Iranian Bulldozers Demolished Ahwazi Arabs Historical Monument
Iranian regime yet again demolished another ancient national heritage building located in Hamidiya town 25km away from capital Ahwaz in AlAhwaz
region. Recently, the Hamidiya Palace recorded as one of the national historical buildings, was faced with an influx of excavator and destruction due to several years of neglect. The Hamidiya palace, named Qajar palace by the Iranian government, belongs to the last ruler of Ahwaz, Shaikh Khazaal prior to 1925.
