Poverty and discrimination force Ahwazis into mine clearance
Anti-personnel mines are claiming lives of Ahwazi Arabs, according to recent reports.
Mine explosions were reported in Sahel Maysan, Dashte Azadegan in November as local Arabs were employed in mine-sweeping along border areas, according to the head of the local judiciary Hamid Azakereh.
Clinton issues ‘strong warning’ to Assad over chemical arms
Al Arabiya with agencies
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday issued a “strong warning” to the regime of Bashar al-Assad over
“Al-Ahwaz will be next battle after Syria”
Relations between the opposition to Syria’s Assad regime and the Ahwazi Arabs are growing with both forging bonds to fight their common enemy, the Iranian regime. With Iran now in effective control over its Syrian vassal state, the Syrian opposition have pledged to support the Ahwazi struggle in meetings with senior Ahwazi leaders.
Discrimination against Arabs in Iranian football
Discrimination is starving budding Ahwazi Arab footballers of sponsorship and equipment, according to local coaches.
Rasoul Sayahi, the coach of the Jenobeh-Azadegan football team in the Arab-majority town Sosangerd (Khafajiyeh), told Farsnews: “Our players do not have a soccer shoes to play with. We managed to be within the first four teams in province’s league division one without having support and managed to qualify for the provincial championship.”
Hospital overwhelmed by cancer epidemic among Ahwazi Arabs
Pollution caused by industry and war is leading to high rates of cancer among Ahwazi Arabs, according to local sources.
Dr Ali Ehsan Pour, the head of Ahwaz City’s Shafa Hospital, which specialises in oncology, said many locals were dying due to lack of trained staff and sufficient medical facilities to deal with the high number of cases.
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.
