Ahwazi: Mayor Among Latest Arrests by Iran Regime
Others residents of Khalafiyeh arrested by the regime include:
Aref Ghali Hidari
Ahmed Karim Hidari
Mousa Karim Hidari
Hossien Saeed Moramadhi
Ahmed Saeed Moramazi
Yousef Saeed Moramazi
Hadi Badily (Madori)
Prominent Ahwazi Arabs are being rounded up in a wave of repression
designed to stop the anti-government demonstrations in the province. Mass arrests
and executions follow pressure on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from his hard-line
supporters who have called for a tougher line on the political opposition. In
February, Hamid Zangeneh, a non-Arab Majlis member for Khuzestan aligned with
the former Revolutionary Guards commander Mohsen Rezaei, called for Arabs to
be taught a lesson with high profile executions, martial law and a crack-down
by security forces. In an interview with the Mehr News Agency, Zangeneh accused
the regime of not doing enough, despite the killings and mass arrests of Arabs.
President Ahmadinejad is under pressure from the religious establishment to
prove his hard-line credentials by killing Arabs.