{"id":4870,"date":"2026-08-12T11:19:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/?p=4870"},"modified":"2026-08-12T14:39:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:39:56","slug":"ahwaz-part-1-by-salem-sirrieh-translated-to-english-by-ibrahim-ebeid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/?p=4870","title":{"rendered":"AHWAZ PART -1 BY SALEM SIRRIEH TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH BY IBRAHIM EBEID"},"content":{"rendered":"

AHWAZ PART -1<\/strong><\/p>\n

SALEM SIRRIEH<\/strong><\/p>\n

TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH BY IBRAHIM EBEID<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ahwaz, also called Arabistan, is part of the land of the Arabs robbed of them (as robbed of others) ninety-five years ago by Iran on the twentieth of April of 1925 during the reign of the Shah, after Sheikh Khazal Al-Kaabi, Prince of Ahwaz, was lured into a trap where he was arrested and imprisoned in Tehran with a group of his companions until 1936 and frequent accounts say: The poison was injected into food and he died poisoned.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The area of this Arab region is 370,000 km2, more than the combined areas of Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Jordan. It is home to 12 million Arab citizens. Economically, it is the lifeblood and beating heart of Iran. Oil and natural gas extracted from Ahvaz\u2019s oil fields account for 85 percent of Iran\u2019s total oil and gas production. 75 percent of Iran\u2019s total electricity capacity is produced in Ahvaz. Ahwaz annually produces three million tons of wheat, which is equal to 50 percent of Iran\u2019s total production, and produces 90 percent of Iran\u2019s date crops. Eight rivers flow into the region, making 65 percent of Iran\u2019s arable land concentrated in that region. The presence of these rivers in Ahwaz made the region the most important center for the establishment of nuclear reactors in Iran, the most famous of which is the Bushehr reactor (1). Therefore, all its oil and agricultural resources are looted from Iran for the purpose of harming the Arabs and achieving its expansionist ambitions. Thanks to this region, Iran overlooks the Arab Gulf and falsely claims that it is the Persian Gulf. Iran has built three large dams on the Karun River near the capital of Ahwaz, bringing the total number of dams on the river to 17 to irrigate distant Iranian provinces, generate electricity, and deprive Arab villages of water. (2)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Arabism of Ahwaz:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have inhabited Ahwaz throughout history: Nabataeans and Palmyra, a people descended from the Arab origin, and the Arab tribes that inhabited Ahwaz, the Rabia and Banu Kaab and Banu Amer and Banu Tarf and Bakr and Tamim and war and Mutair and Dawasir and Shammar and Anza and Dhafir and Subai and Otaiba and many other tribes, and all Arab tribes have their extension in the Arabian Peninsula and have princes and sheiks govern it. The two rivers and the ancient\u00a0 \u00a0ruins\u00a0 of this civilization are still visible to this day despite the multiple attempts to obliterate the history of Ahwaz, especially that history homogeneous with the successive civilizations of Iraq, a history that is completely different from the civilization of Persia, which clearly shows the complete separation between Ahwaz and Persia, the Arab region of Ahwaz roots, history and geography was within the state of Hammurabi, and the presence of Arabs in it dates back to the year 311 BC, and it was under the rule of the Islamic Caliphate following the state of Basra, until the emergence of the Arab state of Al-Mushasha\u2019i, The Safavid state and the Ottoman Caliphate recognized it as an independent state, until the Kaabi state (1724 \u2013 1925 AD) was established and maintained its independence until its fall at the hands of Shah Pahlavi (3), a fact that everyone unfortunately jumps on, some of them hypocritical to Iran, and some to avoid problems, while the truth is that Ahwaz is a pure Arab region that has been forgotten, and the Arabs mentioned it in the past in their poems, including the poet Jarir by saying:<\/strong><\/p>\n

See my cousins, Ahwaz is your home\u2026 And the Terry River, but the Arabs did not know you<\/strong><\/p>\n

.Persian persecution: The Iranian authorities have addressed the situation in the occupied Arab Ahwaz from the police security door, igniting daily executions and hanging Ahwazis on gallows, and also using mechanical levers to increase terror and repression, without the slightest degrees of litigation and fair trials, using the hanger of \u201cinfiltrators\u201d and \u201ctraitors\u201d\u2026 etc. from the Basij dictionary, to justify repression and cold-blooded killing, in light of the Arab and international silence about bringing about any real action to save an occupied people whose only fault is that it is Arab, so the Pahlavi regime did not leave a means to suppress popular movements and uprisings except to practice it, to divide the region and uproot its Arab roots. These practices did not stop with the fall of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, but continued and multiplied during the era of the Islamic Republic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Imposing Persian as an official language, deliberately neglecting the teaching of Arabic, and banning local publications or radio stations in Arabic.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    2 \u2013 Diverting riverbeds into Iran to kill agricultural lands in Ahwaz and dry up the primary sources of livelihood of the population, to migrate them to areas inside Iran to dissolve into other nationalities. The Ahwaz region witnessed massive flooding at the end of March 2019. Instead of helping people protect their homes and lands, the state opened the dams’ floodgates on three rivers, flooding agricultural land and forcing residents to leave. The people of Al-Rafi, whose villages and farming lands suffered heavy losses as a result of the floods and deliberate dumping, said, \u201cThe water washed away everything in its path, trees, agricultural crops, and even hastily built houses, so its residents were forced to evacuate their homes before the disaster occurred. The Iranian authorities also opened gates from the Abbaspour Dam, located in the Suleiman Mosque, after opening the gates of three dams in Ahvaz: the Maroun Dam, the Al-Diz Dam, and the Karkha Dam, under the pretext of the high percentage of water behind those dams, according to Iran\u2019s official statement. Ahwaz villages have witnessed clashes between the people of those villages and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces, which are trying to divert the course of dams and floods on those agricultural lands in Ahwazi villages, which led to Ahwazi casualties shot by security forces, wounding dozens, and displacing tens of thousands from the area, which is what the Iranian authorities are seeking. I have received dozens of videos of the opening of dam ferries and the displacement of the population (4), and the observer concludes that these operations are deliberate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    3- Imposing Persian names for newborns, and those who insist on an Arabic name contrary to Iranian public taste will deny them official documents. It was to change the names of the Arab regions to Persian names until Arabistan became Khuzestan, the city of Hawizeh became (Dasht Mishan), Khafajia became (Susankard), Salhiya became (Andmeshk), Ahwaz became (Ahvaz), Khor Abdullah Port became (Bandar Shahpour Port), Khazal Street in Muhammara became (Belhawi Street), and the city of Muhammara became (Khorramshahr).<\/strong><\/p>\n

    4-The restrictions on Ahwaz youth were tightened by closing their fields of work, forcing them to migrate to Iran and return to their remote places of work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    5 Abolishing the political, administrative, and judicial institutions of Arab governance, and declaring direct military rule in Arabistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    6 Deprivation of the most fundamental political rights and freedoms, which provide for the right of the people to participate in the governance of their country, either directly or through freely chosen representatives. (5)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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