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Street vendors harassed in Ahwaz
Edit NCRI 20 May 2016
NCRI - According to reports from inside Iran, in the past two weeks street vendors in Ahwaz, southwestern Iran, have been subject to harassment by municipal agents. On May 16, municipal agents surrounded the street vendors market in Naderi Street in Ahwaz and prevented people from entering the market, thus preventing the vendors’ from working ... ....
Rampant Racism Against Ethnic Minorities prevails in Iran
Edit The Oslo Times 13 May 2016
Even more, the media steadily justifies the crimes that government commits in Al-Ahwaz where Arab minority lives such as broadcasting villainous propagandas previous execution operations that authorities implements in Al-Ahwaz ... illiteracy and unemployment rising in non-Persian areas and provinces specifically Al-Ahwaz or Arabistan....
The Iranian regime uses public television to spread an atmosphere of fear; reporting on the arrests of 12,000 Ethnic Iranian Kurdish, including young people for using social media networks.
Edit Community news 26 Apr 2016
On Tuesday the National Council of the Resistance of Iran (NCRI) reported about the Iranian regime’s ‘systematic marginalization of ethnic minorities’ and also are concerned for ‘the fate of those arrested for being active on social networks such as Facebook and WhatsApp ... Fearing national protests ‘the clerical regime has resorted to widespread arrests in Ahwaz and Shush in south-west Iran. But also in Bukan in north-west Iran ... ....
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS DEBATE ON THE STATE OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION WORLDWIDE (UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva)
Edit Public Technologies 18 Mar 2016
(Source. UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva). 18 March 2016. The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a debate on the state of racial discrimination worldwide, with a focus on challenges and achievements of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action 15 years after ... Mr ... International Organization for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination referred to aggressive discrimination against Ahwaz Arabs in Iran ... Back....
How Iran's elections are going green
Edit The Guardian 23 Feb 2016
Candidates and voters are talking about the environment like never before, dispelling notions that no-one other than a few enlightened members of the upper classes care about the issue ... In the south-western city of Ahwaz, the cutting of two trees to make room for election banners provoked a backlash from activists and residents that prompted the campaign office to condemn those who had slashed the trees ... "> ... Contact us @tehranbureau. ....
For Iran's Reformists, Getting To The Polls Is Half The Battle
Edit Radio Free Europe 23 Feb 2016
Kazem has vowed, via a social network that's not blocked to him and his fellow Iranians, not to vote in this week's elections. . "I won't let anyone use me as a tool," the Tehran-based businessman declared on Instagram ... . Kazem says he's only voted once ... The next election for the assembly is in eight years, and by then Jannati will hopefully not be alive," a Facebook user in Ahwaz wrote. ... ....
Saudi Arabia v Iran: Riyadh defiant and angry after turbulent week
Edit The Guardian 08 Jan 2016
Ian Black in the Saudi capital finds commentators cataloguing alleged Iranian crimes as tensions continue to run high over execution of Shia cleric. @ian_black ... But it has been a turbulent week ... Three other Shias also died. Related ... Twitter ... “That’s all there is to it.” ... Iranians from Ahwaz in the country’s south-west, home to an Arabic-speaking minority, are being interviewed on Saudi TV – with helpful Farsi subtitles for Iranian viewers ... ....
Several Bahraini lawmakers support Iran terror group
Edit Press TV 30 Dec 2015
Several lawmakers in the Bahraini parliament have urged the Manama regime to provide further support to an ethnic Arab group involved in terrorist activities inside Iran. Five members of a far-right group in the Bahraini parliament have reportedly issued a proposal, calling on the government to recognize the so-called Ahwaz secessionists, a group involved in terror activities in Iran. ... ....
This Iranian asylum-seeker crossed an ocean for her daughter
Edit LA Daily News 01 Dec 2015
She was 22 ... And that he was abusive ... Nasra is part of an Arab minority from the Iranian city of Ahwaz, a deeply conservative place near the southeastern border of Iraq ... “In Iraq, life was better than in [Ahwaz], the society was a little bit more open,” Nasra says ... From there she went to Ahwaz, where she gathered the family members she trusted, packed up, and led them on a journey toward Europe ... Advertisement ....
Refugees clash with Macedonian police
Edit Taipei Times 29 Nov 2015
Refugees and migrants on the border between Greece and Macedonia attacked police with stones on Saturday, enraged by the sight of Macedonian authorities erecting a fence along the border and an accident that injured a young Moroccan man ... “I have been here for 10 days with my two sons. We have decided to return to Athens and see what we will do,” said 41-year-old Fatemeh who is from the Iranian city of Ahwaz....
Migrants attack Macedonian police as construction of Greek border fence begins
Edit The Guardian 29 Nov 2015
Officers retaliated with stun grenades and plastic bullets after unrest broke out among 800 migrants waiting at the border to continue their journey to northern Europe ... Authorities said 18 Macedonian officers were injured in the brief but intense clashes on Saturday ... Related ... Twitter ... We have decided to return to Athens and see what we will do,” said 41-year-old Fatemeh, from the Iranian city of Ahwaz ... ....
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