Ahwazi: Iran Guilty of Land Confiscations
Ahwazi Arabs are being displaced from prime agricultural land as the spread of government farms twists
Below is an article published by the Iranian Minorities’ Human Right Organisation:
Land confiscation in Ahwaz continues by making new town of in north of
Ramin town built on confiscated land from Sanicheh and Jalieh villages, both belongs to indigenous Ahwazi Arab.
Arab indigenous of
“Rafsanjani ordered […the] building […of] huge sugar cane farms in area. As result of purification of salt of that land, water of cities like
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During Khatemi and Ahmadinejad period land confiscation increased. In 2005 letter came out revealing government intention of changing demography of area by building more towns […and the] government violated peaceful protest in
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Government using those lands for sugar cane farms, new towns, industrial states and military aims. The land we talking here is not just ordinary land, one of the main world energy reserves is under it. In most cases government did not paid any compensation to indigenous Arab Ahwazi land owners.
New towns built for non indigenous which are mostly Persian, have better facilities such as electricity, gas, and healthy water than old cities of Arab indigenous and this is in the time which According to Iranian news agency iscanews, at least 400 thousand leaving in shanty town in suburb of Ahwaz city.
Yet Iranian government making it easier for new comers in
Building every new town means new wave of settlers to
Land confiscation is criminal act which exercise on indigenous Arab Ahwazi land. IMHRO strongly condemning building new town and settlement in
Kidnapping farmers and forcing them to sign a paper is very common in confiscating land in
Background
Oil and gas rich area of
Land confiscation by government is the other source of tension. Government forced many Arab farmers to leave their land without and compensations. Those land then used for new towns and industrial area employed by non indigenous Arabs.
Although About 85% of Iranian revenue comes from this area, Iranian government and parliament refused to spent 1% of it in area. Unemployment is high and above national average.
Heavily oil and petrochemical industry in area causing pollution in area. Last year reported mercury found in dead birds in