{"id":4873,"date":"2026-08-12T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:28:09","slug":"ahwaz-part-2-by-salem-sirrieh-translated-to-english-by-ibrahim-ebeid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/?p=4873","title":{"rendered":"AHWAZ PART -2 BY SALEM SIRRIEH -TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH BY IBRAHIM EBEID"},"content":{"rendered":"

AHWAZ PART -2<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

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Ahwazi resistance:<\/strong><\/p>\n

For more than 90 years, the Arab people in Ahwaz have resisted slander, uprooting, and oppression, and refuse to leave their country. Seventeen Ahwazi organizations suffer from fragmentation and conflicting ideologies within three lines of thought.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1- The Marxist trend associated with the Communist Party of Tudeh focused on social rights and demands.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2\u2014The religious trend concerns the Iranian authority (a replica of the religious parties that ruled Iraq after its occupation). The prominent symbol of this trend is Ali Shamkhani (Minister of Defense).<\/strong><\/p>\n

3- The nationalist trend, which calls for complete independence from Iran. This is a trend that Iran is fiercely suppressing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the Ba’ath Party came to power in Iraq in 1968, it began to support the Ahwaz struggle, where the Popular Front for the Liberation of Ahwaz was established. This front shook the ground under the legs of SAVAK and its agents in Ahwaz, and the Arab population could not help but return to the struggle, so they established a new organization called the \u201cArab Jamahiriya Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz\u201d during the war with Iran, taking advantage of the emerging situation, where they invented a variety of new methods to fight the Iranian security services to preserve their cultural identity and Arab presence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Below is a summary of the uprisings of these living Arab people:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Only three months after the occupation of Ahwaz, which took place on April 20, 1925, when the soldiers of Sheikh Khazal and his private guards stood against the policy of separation, and they carried out a Revolution called \u201cThe Revolution of the Boys\u201d on July 22, 1925, led by the two martyrs (Shalash and Sultan).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    2 Shaykh \u2018Abd al-Muhsin al-Khaqani, a prominent Ahwaz personality respected by all the Ahwaz Arab people, together with some of his comrades and supporters, led another armed popular uprising in Mohammarah that expanded to include the cities of Ahwaz.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    3- The Revolution known as the Hawizeh Revolution in 1928: Led by the prominent martyr Muhyiddin Al-Za\u2019iraq, head of the Al-Shorafa tribes, who formed a six-month government, and observers of the events of the Revolution noted the participation of Ahwazi women in this Revolution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    4 Bani Taraf Intifada (I) in 1936.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    5- The widespread popular uprising of which the Kaab al-Debis clan was the vanguard in 1940.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    6 Gypsy uprising of 1943: This Revolution was led by Sheikh Jasib bin Sheikh martyr Khazal Al-Kaabi.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    7- The movement of Sheikh Abdullah bin Sheikh martyr Khazal Al-Kaabi in 1944.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    8 Bani Taraf Intifada (Second) in 1945.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    9 The popular uprising led by Sheikh Mathkhour al-Kaabi in 1946.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    10 Popular uprising of the Nassar clan in 1946.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    11 Another armed uprising led by Sheikh Yunus al-Assi in 1949.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    12 An armed uprising led by the martyr Muhyiddin Al Nasser, Issa al-Mathkhor, and Dharab al-Nasiri in 1956.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    13 In 1979, the Ahwaz Arab people rose up against the Shah\u2019s regime, and, through their control of the oil wells scattered across the region and the significant economic facilities in Ahwaz, they were able to paralyze Iran\u2019s economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    14 The Ahwazi masses unleashed a massive 3-day uprising in 1985, which was met with repression and excessive use of force by the Khomeini regime.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    15 Perhaps the most critical and prominent turns witnessed by Ahwaz is the \u201cApril Ahwaz uprising\u201d that was triggered by the Ahwaz masses on 15\/04\/2005, where a document was leaked from the office of President Mohammad Khatami stating a \u201cplan for ethnic restructuring in the Ahwaz region,\u201d which created great anger, and triggered a massive uprising that spread throughout all cities and villages of Ahwaz from north to south, on that day the masses took to the streets expressing their rejection and protest against the policy of predation followed by Tehran. This uprising created a new reality in the life of the Arab people in Ahwaz at all levels, opened new horizons for raising the issue of Ahwaz at the Arab and international levels, and broke the media blackout. (6)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The Ahwaz people have taken honorable positions on the issues of their nation:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    1- In 1924, Haj Amin al-Husseini (Mufti of Palestine) visited Ahwaz, met with Prince Khazal, and asked him for help from the Palestinian people. Prince Khazal provided financial support to the Palestinian revolutionaries. In 1979, the late Yasser Arafat visited Iran to congratulate the Iranian revolutionaries on their success. He visited Ahwaz and gave an enthusiastic speech, during which more than a million citizens gathered to welcome him, calling for Palestine and its people. This prompted the Iranian authorities to cancel his agenda, fearing the explosion of national feeling that had been expressed at this meeting. (Dr. Khalid Masalmeh, p. 44).<\/strong><\/p>\n

    2- The participation of the people of Ahwaz in the twentieth Revolution in Iraq.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    3- Support and support for the Algerian Revolution and the nationalization of the Suez Canal and unity 58 between Egypt and Syria and participation in the defense of Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war \u2026 etc. (7)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The sanctity of Ahwaz soil is entirely equal to the sanctity of any inch of the Arab world. Therefore, the liberation of Ahwaz from the clutches of the Iranian occupation remains a national duty that requires embracing and supporting Ahwaz organizations calling for the return of Ahwaz to the bosom of the Arab nation. Iran will not be able to obliterate its Arab identity, no matter how long the occupation lasts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    References:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    1- Dr. Nabil Al-Atoom, \u201cFuture Horizons\u201d magazine: Iran\u2019s policy towards minorities, 27 February 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

    2- Abbas Asakra Master\u2019s Thesis 2004 Tunisia<\/strong><\/p>\n

    3- Abd al-Nabi al-Qayyim, History of the Ahwaz Arabs, Cairo, Dar al-Uloom, 1999<\/strong><\/p>\n

    4- Ahwaz land for occupied Arab \u2013 2008 2nd edition Dr. Khaled Masalma<\/strong><\/p>\n

    5- Dr. Jibril Al-Obaidi, Monday, 24 September 2018, Issue No. (14545) https:\/\/aawsat.com\/home\/article\/1405001\/%D8%AF \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

    6- Abdul Hamid Siam \u2013 November 28, 2019 \u2013 The tragedy of the Ahwazi Arabs<\/strong><\/p>\n

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