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In late March, Arabs staged protests in Khuzestan province after a the national TV excluded their community from a programme about Iran's ethnic diversity. Then in April, the security forces cracked down on water shortage protests in Isfahan province.
News Iran » Khuzestan: Rights group says British-Iranian professor held in Tehran
Iranian businessman Siamak Namazi and his 81-year-old father Baquer, a former UNICEF representative who served as governor of Iran's oil-rich Khuzestan province under the U.S.-backed shah, are both serving 10-year sentences on espionage charges.
News Iran » Khuzestan: It’s not the West that will trigger regime change in Iran. It’s protest from within.
And according to the Statistical Center of Iran, a government agency, Khuzestan has the third-highest unemployment rate of any province in the country, even though it produces 85 percent of Iran’s oil. The current protests erupted in late March out of ...
News Iran » Khuzestan: Why Iran Should Disentangle Itself from Middle East Conflicts
After the 1958 revolution, General Qasim declared Khuzestan to be part of Iraq and claimed the entire Shatt al-Arab. Such a mindset eventually led Saddam Hussein to attack Iran when the country was in the throes of revolutionary turmoil. The PLO and other ...
News Iran » Khuzestan: Iran Utility Addresses Insulator Contamination
This major transmission system collapse prompted the Iran Minister of Energy, supported by deputies and responsible organizations established in Khuzestan, to act on resolving the cause of the local shutdowns associated with the polluted insulators.
News Iran » Khuzestan: Conflict Between Iran and Israel Will Rest on Fate of the Nuclear Deal
At Iran’s international airport ... That same month, workers at the Haft Tapeh sugar plant in Khuzestan Province – where some 5,500 people are employed – went on strike because they hadn’t been paid in months. Some even committed suicide because ...
News Iran » Khuzestan: The Iran Protests No One Is Covering
Days later, the oil-rich Khuzestan Province in southwestern Iran, especially the city of Ahwaz, became the scene of continuous unrest. Locals began protesting a regime plan, implemented by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, to reroute Karoon River, a major ...
News Iran » Khuzestan: 'Ahwazis don't give up': Anniversary of annexed Arab province looms in Iran
Tensions have run high in the province – which was known as Arabistan before Shah Reza Pahlavi overthrew the ruling sheikh and annexed Khuzestan in 1925 - for decades. Ahwazi Arabs, who are a minority in Iran, hold that they have been systematically ...
News Iran » Khuzestan: Growing Demands For Apology From Iranian State TV Over Discriminatory Kids Show
Lawmakers in Iran’s mostly Arab-populated Khuzestan Province have demanded a meeting with the head of the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) organization and its board of supervisors “regarding insults against Iran’s honorable ...
News Iran » Khuzestan: A Saudi-Iranian Dialogue on Regional Security
And Saddam officially announced that a province, Khuzestan, is part of Iraq. A clear disintegration of Iran. And this war had hundreds of thousands of injured and killed. Hundreds of billions of dollars of damages. Moderator: I want to make sure we have ...