Rahim Hamid, Contributor Rahim Hamid is a freelance journalist and human rights advocate who covers the plight of his community – the Ahwazi Arabs – and other ethnic groups in Iran. Ghazi Haidari is drowning in his own blood. The...
After many years of anticipation and delays, the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) rail line has ceremoniously gone into service. Its first train just pulled out of the New Port of Baku on Monday, making its first official run across Azerbaijan and Georgia to the...
Ahwazi community in Berlin protest EU’s silence on ongoing human rights abuses in Ahwaz By Rahim Hamid, Ahwazi freelance journalist and human rights activist based in the USA On Friday, October 20, a mass demonstration organized by Europe’s Ahwazi community...
Araz News:Two Ahwazi Arab political prisoners have been sentenced to death by the Revolution Court of the Iranian regime in Ahwaz, sources in the media office of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz said. According to well-informed...
Hamid Mansour: We should address the West to correct image of Arabs Saad al-Din Ibrahim: Iranian regime uses minorities to foment discord among Arabs Zafer Mohammed al-Ajmi: The best defense is a good offense; move the battle inside Iran Fatima...
Araz News:The Ministry of Education of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stated in one of its recent announcement that, the lack of accent is one of the ministry’s main terms of hiring in upcoming educational semester 2017-2018. According to...
Araz News: HL Glue Factory is not like other factory people have heard of. Rules and regulation in this chemical factory has been made by its executive members. To start with, holding of the daily obligatory prayers in congregation is...
Araz News: Nader Ghazipour, Mohammad Hossein Farhangi, and Alireza Mahjub, MPs from Urmia, Tabriz and Tehran, have warned Rouhani in case of not listing the Turk ministers in the twelfth government cabinet. The MPs of the people of Izeh and...
Araz News: The Iranian soldier has shot and killed four co-servicemen on 6th of Aug. According to Iran’s state news agency, 4 soldiers were slaughtered and 12 servicemen injured in an incident which happened in Kahrizak garrison. One of the...
By Rahim Hamid, an Ahwazi journalist and human rights activist This foul fluid which looks and reportedly smells like liquid sewage is, in fact, the heavily polluted water supply for drinking and washing at a children’s school in the Arab...
Araz News: Iranian Member of Parliament Hassan Noroozi, the spokesperson of the parliament’s judicial committee, said there was a draft law to provide drug addicts with coupons to get drugs from the government on Sunday, 23 July 2017. The Iranian...
Araz News:An Iranian MP has criticized a controversial proposal on transferring water from the Caspian Sea to the drought-hit Semnan Province, warning about the catastrophic consequences of the long awaited plan. MP Qasem Ahmadlashaki for Nowshahr City has expressed concerns...
Araz News: In a speech on Tuesday July 11, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani boasted that his government is propping up the Assad regime militarily and financially in Syria, and providing troops and militias in Iraq, as well as bragging that during...
Araz News:Iranian authorities have detained President Hassan Rouhani’s brother, the judiciary spokesman said on July 16, in a corruption case that the president’s supporters say is politically motivated. State television quoted spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei as saying Hossein Fereydoun, who...
Araz News:On 11 July 2017, Iranian security forces arrested members of an Ahwazi family after violently beating them. The incident occurred in the city of Ahwaz, before the demolition of their house due to an alleged lack of official land...
