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.