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The Ahvaz National Resistance (Persian: مقاومت ملی اهواز) is an ethnic Arab opposition movement in Iran that seeks an independent state in Khuzestan Province. [ 1 ] Described by Israeli newspaper Haaretz as "an umbrella organization of all armed movements", the Ahvaz National Resistance claimed responsibility for the 2018 Ahvaz ...
Ahvaz (Persian: اهواز; [ʔæhˈvɒːz] ⓘ) [a] is a city in the Central District of Ahvaz County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. [4] It is home to Persians including Bakhtiaris , Dezfulis, Shushtaris, Lurs and other folks like Arabs and Kurds [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] .
Map of Khuzestan province in Iran. Khuzestan province is a petroleum-rich, ethnically-diverse province in southwestern Iran.Oil fields in the province include Ahvaz Field, Marun, Aghajari, Karanj, Shadegan and Mansouri.
The Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz (Arabic: حركة النضال العربي لتحرير الأحواز, romanized: Ḥarakat an-Niḍāl al-ʿArabī li-Taḥrīr al-ʿAhwāz; abbreviated ASMLA) is an Arab nationalist and separatist insurgent group which advocates the secession of an area in southern Iran including all of Khuzestan Province and Bushehr Province and parts ...
Arab separatism in Khuzestan [3] is a decades-long separatist Arab movement in the western part of the Khuzestan Province in Iran.. From the 1920s to the early 2020s, tensions have often resulted in violence and attempted separatism by Khuzestani Arabs, including the insurgency in 1979, unrest in 2005, terrorist bombings in 2005–2006, protests in 2011, assassinations in 2017, and the 2018 ...
In 2005, Ahvaz witnessed a number of terrorist attacks, which came following the violent Ahvaz riots. The first bombing came ahead of the presidential election on 12 June 2005. In 2011, another wave of protests by Arab tribes occurred mostly in the urban area of Ahvaz.
The name was reverted back to Khuzestan by Reza Shah in 1925 [11] under his campaign which included the central government ordering the change of names of many cities and towns during the 1930's; these orders changed names of many towns from their native names to Persianized names, to the new name of Reza Khan, naming himself Pahlavi in honor ...
The 2011 Khuzestan protests, known among protesters as the Ahvaz Day of Rage, relates to violent protests, which erupted on 15 April 2011 in Khuzestan province, ...