Ethnic politics of Khuzestan

It is claimed by some sources that oil revenues from the province are spent in other areas of Iran favoured by the Islamic Republic, while they and other Khuzestanis struggle to repair extensive war damage with little revenue or support from the central government. While poverty is rampant amongst all native Khuzestani groups, it is most especially evident amongst the Arabs. Ethnic politics of Khuzestan - Alleged racism. Some Arabs feel that they are suspected, unfairly, of complicity in Saddam ...

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The Arabs of Khuzestan are the Arabic-speaking or Arab-descended inhabitants of what is now the Iranian province of Khuzestan. Before the 1908 discovery of oil in Khuzestan (See History of Khuzestan), most of the province's inhabitants were settled or semi-nomadic Arabs. The growth of the oil industry, and later Iranian government policies designed to "Persianize" the area, tipped the demographic balance. There was much immigration into the ...

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Khuzestan Province - Pre-Islamic History. History of Iran Empires of Iran: Jiroft Kingdom Elamite Kingdom Mannaeans kingdom Median Empire Achaemenid Empire Seleucid Empire Parthian Empire Sassanid dynasty Islamic conquest of Iran Tahirid dynasty Saffarid dynasty Ziyarid dynasty Samanid dynasty Buwayhid dynasty Ghaz ...

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Khuzestan was a part of the Elamite Empire for many centuries. Its inhabitants spoke the Elamite language, which was neither Indo-European, as is the Persian language, nor Semitic, as is Arabic. After Elam was assimilated into the Achaemenid Iran, it is believed that the Elamites were slowly Persianized. It is not at all clear how long or how much of the Elamite language and customs survived. There may also have been some Arab influences and immigration, from the client state of the Ar ...

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Khuzestan was once inhabited by a people known as Elamites, who were neither Indo-European (like the Medes and Persians of the Iranian plateau) nor Semitic (like the peoples of other Mesopotamian city-states). Some scholars believe that they were the remnant of an even more ancient population, related to the Dravidians of southern India. Archaeologists and historians have documented various Elamite dynasties ranging from approximately 2700 BCE to 644 BCE However, various early proto-Elamite ruins such as Sialk exist in central Iran. The boun ...

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In 1924 Khaz'al went to the League of Nations in an effort to gain international recognition of his sheikhdom and to gather support for the permanent separation of the region from Iran, but failed. In January 1925 Reza Khan sent his military commanders to the province to assert the authority of the provisional government in Tehran. An Imperial farman (executive order) was issued renaming the province from Arabistan to Khuzestan, and Khaz'al lost his authorit ...

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Khuzestan, unlike most other provinces in Iran, is inhabited by a number of ethnic minorities and peoples. Autochthonous Persians in major cities, Arabic-speakers and Iranian Arab tribes, the Bakhtiari, Behbahanis, Laks, and Lurs of the north, the Qashqai and Afshari tribes, the peoples of Dezful, Shushtar and the inhabitants of the coastal regions of the Persian Gulf all make up the population of the province of Khuzestan. There are no ...

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Khuzestan has long been the subject of many a writer and poet of Persia. Some popular verses are: زبس کز دامن لب شکر افشاند شکر دامن به خوزستان بر افشاند Her lips aflow with sweet sugar, The sweet sugar that aflows in Khuzestan. Nizami قد رعنای تو و قامت سرو کشمر لب شیرین تو و شکر خوزستانی Your graceful figure like the cypress in Kashmar, Your sweet lips like the sugar of Khuzestan. Nizari Qohistani که باشد که پیون� ...

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Khuzestan is the major oil-producing region of Iran, and as such is one of the wealthiest province in Iran, though it is claimed that this wealth does not benefit the average citizen. The government of Iran claims the province to rank third among Iran's provinces in GDP. source (in Persian) In 2005, Iran's government announced it was planning the country's second nuclear reactor to be built in Khuzestan province.[12] The 360 MW reactor will be a Light Water PWR Reactor.[13] < ...

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For several centuries Arabistan, as with many other Iranian provinces prior to the era of the Pahlavi dynasty, had been a semi-autonomous part of Persia under the control of an Imperial Governor-Generalate appointed by the Shah. The Zagros mountains separated the province from the central Iranian plateau. The governor-general, who resided part of the year in the cool highlands at Shushtar or Dezful, often left real exercise of power to local leaders who bid and quarrel ...

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Khaz'al had several wives, all of whom were ethnic Persians from the city of Behbahan. The Arab explorer Amin al-Rayhani reports, however, that he had sixty wives and that he did not even know some of his own descendants personally. One of Sheikh Khaz'al's sons later became a deputy minister in Reza Shah's government and continued to remain active in Iranian political affairs up until the Iranian Revolution. Khaz'al's descendants (the House of Khaz'aliyeh) are scattered throughout both ...

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In 1921, realizing the threat posed by Reza Khan Mirpanj, who had just staged a coup d'etat with Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee, Khaz'al proceeded to take steps in order to protect himself. He attempted to form an alliance with all the Bakhtiari, Lur, and Khamseh tribes, in order to prevent Reza Khan from gaining too much power. His ultimate aim was that through this tribal alliance the Zagros Mountains would become a nearly impenetrable barrier against the forces of the central government. However, the various tribal groups often clashed with each other and wer ...

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After Jabir's death in 1881, his elder son, Maz'al Khan, took over as tribal leader and Sheikh. However, in June of 1897 Maz'al was killed. Some accounts state that he was assassinated by his younger brother, Khaz'al Khan, while others state that this was done by a palace guard under orders from Khaz'al. Thereafter Khaz'al assumed his position as Sheikh of Mohammerah, proclaiming himself not only the leader of the Bani Kaab, but also the ruler of the entire province. Furthermore, it was reported that Khaz'al murdered or blinded many o ...

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According to the 1996 census, the province had an estimated population of 3.7 million people, of which approximately 62.5% were in the urban centres, 36.5% were rural dwellers and the remaining 1% were non-residents. The province of Khuzestan can be basically divided into two regions, i.e. the plains and mountainous regions. The former being in the south and west of the province. This area is irrigated by the Karun, Karkheh and Jarahi rivers. The mountainous regions are situated to the north and east of the province, and are considered to ...

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Iran's National Heritage Organization lists 140 sites of Historical and Cultural significance in Khuzestan, reflecting the fact that the province was once the seat of Iran's most ancient empire. Some of the more popular sites of attraction include: Choqa Zanbil: The seat of the Elamite Empire, this ziggurat is a magnificent five-story temple that is one of the greatest ancient monuments in the Middle-East today. The monolith, with its labyrinthine walls made of thousads of large bricks with Elamite inscription, manifest t ...

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Main article: Origin of the name Khuzestan The name Khuzestan, which means "The Land of the Khuzi" (see Dehkhoda), refers to the original inhabitants of this province, the Khuzi people. The name Ahvaz also has the same origin as the name Khuzestan. (ibid.) The province, however, has also been called Arabistan or Arabestan at times, particularly starting during the reign of Tahmasp I in the 16th century, after the Arab Muhammad ibn Falah, leader of th ...

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Main article: Origin of the name Khuzestan The name Khuzestan, which means "The Land of the Khuzi," refers to the original inhabitants of this province, the Khuzi people. The province, however, has also been called Arabistan or Arabestan at times, particularly after the Arab Muhammad ibn Falah, leader of the Msha'sha'iya, initiated a wave of attacks on Khuzestan in AD 1440, leading to a gradual increase in the Arab population of Khuzestan. (See [1], [2], [3] and [4]. Also see [5] under "Al-Ahwaz (Arabistan)".) Reza ...

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Khuzestan - Human Rights Watch. In 1997, Human Rights Watch reported "Iranian Arabs, an ethnic minority centered in southwest Iran, have cited significant restrictions on their language and culture, and on their right to participate effectively in decisions affecting the area in which they live." [12]. According to another report in the same year, "Arabic is not taught in elementary schools, and the Arabic teaching in secondary schools focuses exclusively on religious texts. The governor of Khuzestan is not an Ar ...

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Khuzestan, like other provinces in Iran, is inhabited by a number of ethnic minorities and peoples. Autochthonous Persians in major cities, Arabic-speakers and Iranian Arab tribes, the Bakhtiari, Behbahani and Luri of the north, the Qashqai and Afshari tribes, the peoples of Dezful, Shushtar and the inhabitants of the coastal regions of the Persian Gulf all make up the population of the province of Khuzestan. There are no official ...

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