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January 20, 2017       Share:    

Source: https://www.memri.org/reports/saudi-writer-ahwaz-region-deserves-self-determination-its-occupation-iran-no-less-barbaric

Iran's Ahwazi Arab People Deserve Self-Determination

(MEMRI) On Dec. 3, 2016, an international conference on Ahwaz in Tunisia by the Euro Arab Center for Studies called on the UN and human rights organizations to oversee human rights there and in other Iranian regions populated by non-Persian minorities. 'Abd Al-Mohsen Hilal, writing in the Saudi daily 'Okaz, called the Ahwaz issue older than the Palestinian issue. Ahwaz is home to 12 million Arabs, and most of Iran's oil and natural gas comes from the region.

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