On Wednesday morning thousands of Ahwazi Arabs rallied in front of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) building against a program that disregarded them as an ethnicity on Iran’s map and expressed their rejection of the policies of racial discrimination, national oppression, insulting the Arabs and removing them from their areas and housing the immigrants(settlers) from other provinces
The demonstrators chanted the slogan “Ahwaz is ours ,we will never give it up” in the midst of the of halahil( Arab women ovations) in order to prove the identity of their land.
Demonstrators dressed in Arabic traditional clothes and raised slogans in both Arabic and Persian and called on the radio and television officials to apologise to the Arab people and to reprimand the officials of the program.
Other gatherings in Abadan, ma’ashur and other cities in the region have been organized in recent days to denounce the anti-Arab racist wave in Ahwaz in general and in the national Iranian media in particular.
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Ahwaz Human Rights Organization
28 March 2018
