By Nir Boms and Roee Nahmias, Henry Jackson Society, 6th September 2007 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Over a million Arabs have been deported from the district of Al-Ahwaz, home to some eight million Arabs, in Southern-East Iran, near the Iraqi border. They have been replaced with Persian Iranians. Human rights activists in this area have been arrested [...]
Entries from May 2008
Middle East transfer: The continuing Iranian persecution of its Ahwazi Arab population
May 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Human Rights, Iran
Tags: Al-Ahwaz·Al-Jazeera·Human Rights·Iran·NGOs
“Is Anyone Listening?”
May 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Human Rights, Syria
November 21, 2003, 9:08 By Nir Boms & Erick Stakelbeck “The advance of freedom is the calling of our time; it is the calling of our country.” With this statement, made in his November 6, 2003, speech calling for the establishment of democracy in the Middle East, President Bush galvanized an increasingly active contingent of [...]
Tags: Ba'ath party·Bashar Assad·Democracy·Financing terror·reform·Syria