Iran is taking advantage of the attack to unite the ranks behind the besieged regime, but they have bigger worry than a single armed operation in Ahwaz as the incident is just another terror attack done by the Iranian regime.
Iranian regime fears a scarier nightmare, and this nightmare threatens Iranian regime’s existence. Nikki Haley told Iran after the attack: “Look in the mirror”, meaning the violence that happened in Ahwaz resembles it. Violence brings violence and the Iranian authorities are the ones that fund it and support it in Bahrain, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and other areas.
But the Ahwazis are paying a high price for the attack. Iranian regime continuous their systematic crack down on Ahwazi Arabs, continuously spreading fear among Ahwazis. Iran under the universalobligation must treat its own people fairly but are they following that? bearing in mind that the Iranian regime harass/arrests/torture and execute people for their political/cultural and environmental activities.
Even though Ahwaz region accounts for 90% of Iran’s Gross domestic product, standing as the backbone of Iran’s economy. But it is one of most underdeveloped borders in the world’s most polluted areas. Our sources in Ahwaz said around 400 people were arrested.
So, the arrestees include civil, cultural, religious, human rights and political activists.But the issue has gone further, and in some cases, children and women have been detained by detainees as hostages. Some of the detainees have been transferred to Tehran. Meanwhile, no one dares to inquire about courts or security forces departments because they are terrified that they may get arrested.
The security forces seem to do whatever they want with the Ahwazi Arab people as they can blame them with the “Military parade attack” label. They try to eradicate any kind of independent cultural and civil activity in the province by creating a climate of terror and imprisonment/torture and execution.
The names of some of the detainees who have been identified by Ahwazi activists inside Ahwaz are as follows:
- Riaz Shamousi
- Ali Heidari
- Yousef Khasraji
- Jawad Hashemi
- Ali-reza Dris
- Maher Masoudi
- Riaz Zehiri
- Khalid Silawi
- Mokhtar Masoudi
- Ali Albaji
- Mohammad Masoudi
- Jader Afrawi
- Aghil Shamousi
- Seyed Jalil Mousawi
- Essa Badwi
- Hadi Abdawi
- Seyed Sadegh Mousawi
- Ahmad Heidari
- Milad Afrawi
- Adel Zehiri
- Abdulah Silawi
- Abbas Badwi
- Mousa Mazraeh
- Rashid Koroshat
- Hakim Koroshat
- Ms Zuddieh Afrawi
- Qaisiyah Afrawi
- Jawad Mohanapour
- Ali Moghinami
- Hussein Hamoodi
- Yahia Hamoodi
- Naji Kaabi
- Yahia Kaabi
- Azim Shawordi
- Ebrahim Shawordi
- Khaled Albu Khenfereh
- Ahmad Shawordi
- Mehdi Shawordi
- Adnan Khanafereh
- Moslem Faraj-allah
- Anwar Ashoori
- Mohammad-reza Jalali
- Rahim Amin-poor
- Mehdi Obidawi
- Mostafa Jalali
- Loghman Shorfi
- Yousef Marawneh
- Abdulah Hayati
- Nader Hayati
- Mostafa Basiri
- Kazem Sayahi
- Mansour Asakereh
- Yahiah Obidawi
- Ghasem Obidawi
- Jafar Obidawi
- Hassan Bit-Saeed
- Adel Zabee
- Ali Obidawi
- Aref Abiat
- Mohsen Badwi
- Farhan Shamousi
- Mohammad Amouri
- Naeem Heidari
- Aref Ghazlawi
- Kazem Ghazlawi
- Ali Alhaee
- Ahmad Amin
- Sajad Silawi
- Seyed Sadegh-Zadeh
- Jawad Badwi
- Shany Shamousi
- Khalil Silawi
- Jamil Silawi
- Fares Shamousi
- Sadegh Silawi
- Ali Mazraeh
- Samir Silawi
- Shaker Sawari
- Seyed Ghazem Mousawi
- Fazel Shamousi
- Sohrab Moghdem
- Karim Mojdem
- Jafar Hezbawi
- Ahmad Hezbawi
- Aref Nasseri
- Esameh Teimas
- Ahmad Teimas
- Mohammad Teimas
- Seyed Jasem Rahmani
- Majed Cheldawi
- Seyed Mahmood Rahmani
- Hatam Sawari
- Jasem Koroshawi
- Noori Neisi
- Hussein Heidari
- Adnan Sawari
- Mohammad Heidari
- Majed Sawari
- Ali Sawari
- Mohammad Mohammadi
- Ghasem Kaabi
- Mehdi Saedi
- Lami Shamousi
- Adel Afrawi
- Mehdi Kooty
- Ali Kooty
- Satar Kooty
- Ali Mansouri
- Ali Saki
- Abbas Saki
- Abo-Shelan Saki
- Khazal Abbas Al-tamimi
- Ali Sawari
- Mostafa Sawari
- Khaled Obidawi
- Abbas Heidari
- Morteza Amiri
- Yasin Amiri
- Sadegh Heidari
- Jalal Nebhani
- Khaled Hezbawi
- Mohammad Hezbawi
- Reza Betrani
- Taregh Amiri
- Jemal Mojadam
- Mehdi Mazraeh
- Ali Mazraeh
- Mohammad Sawari
- Ali Sawari
- Ahmad Kazem
- Jafar Abidawi
- Ahmad Bawi
- Ali Shajirat
- Mahmood Doraghi
- Aziz Hamidawi
- Omid Bechari
- Ramin Bechari
- Jamil Ahmad-poor
- Fahad Neisi
- Jamil Heidari
- Majed Heidari
- Ahmad Hamry
- Ali Sawari
- Danial Adel
- Mousa Mazraeh
- Abdulrahman Khasraji
- Mehdi Mazraeh
- Ahmad Sweedi
- Adnan Mazraeh
- Ms Lamia Hamadi
- Hassan Hezbawi
- Ali Sweedi
- Faeez Afrawi
- Mohammad Amin Afrawi
- Abbas Moghinami
- Morteza Bitshikh
- Morteza Moghinami
- Aref Moghinami
- Hamdan Afrawi
- Amir Afrawi
- Ali Afrawi
We, Ahwazi Centre for Human Rights are calling on all human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and the European Parliament to address the situation of Ahwazi Arabs prisoners and put an end to torturing political prisoners and stop human rights violations towards Ahwazis and other non-Persian nations, human rights and political prisoners in geographic so called Iran.
Hossein Bouazar is a human rights activist from the Ahwaz region in Iran. He writes about human rights abuses committed on the Arab Ahwazi.
Ahwazi Centre for Human Rights
Date: 29/10/2018