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Article: Repression of Arabs fuels unrest in Iran; Oil-rich province hit by bombings, discrimination.(WORLD)(BRIEFING: MIDDLE EAST)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 15, 2006
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Byline: John R. Bradley, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
AHVAZ, Iran - Unrest among ethnic Arabs in this remote capital of oil-rich Khuzestan province bordering southern Iraq presents Iran with its most serious domestic security threat since the 1979 Islamic revolution, just as discussion in Washington about Iran's myriad internal ethnic and religious divisions reaches fever pitch.
Two men found guilty of bombing a bank here in January, killing six persons, were publicly hanged from a crane this month. Both were ethnic Arabs, who are a slim majority in the province and have close ties to Iraqi Arabs across the border. A day earlier, three other Iranian Arabs ...