Ahwazi: Tehran’s Oil and Agriculture Industry Devastates Environment in Al Ahwaz Region
Photo Courtesy of AFP Ahwazis suffer from the environmental degradation of their ancestral lands. Since the occupation of Al Ahwazi by Shah of Iran Reza Khan in 1925, Tehran has turned the fertile lands of the Ahwazi Arabs into a desert due to oil extraction and sugar cane production in the region. Roughly 40 percent of the gas extracted alongside oil in the province, which could be used as an energy...