Posted on 02/26/2006 1:15:41 PM PST by freedom44
The Iranian regime is stepping up its land confiscation programme in order to expand Persian settlements in Al-Ahwaz (Khuzestan), despite condemnation by the UNCHR and European Parliament last year.
The Shahinshahr and Ramin settlements are the focus of a new wave of land confiscations, in addition to the ethnic cleansing being carried out along the Arvand Free Trade Zone along the Shatt Al-Arab.
The regime is encouraging ethnic Persians to settle on the land confiscated from Ahwazi Arab farmers by placing advertisements in Faris-speaking provinces and cities. The adverts promise cheap fully furnished apartments with all amenities, which is in stark contrast to the squalor of the slums and villages where most Ahwazi Arabs reside.
A number of exclusively Persian settlements have already been built on Ahwazi Arab land, including the Ramin-1 and Ramin-2 townships, Shahinshahr, Shirinshar and Jufir. New Persian townships are being constructed on a daily basis. Similar ones are being built daily.
Some of these settlements were highlighted by Miloon Kothari, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, following a visit to Al-Ahwaz last year (click here for report).
In an interview, Kothari said: "when you visit Ahwaz ... there are thousands of people living with open sewers, no sanitation, no regular access to water, electricity and no gas connections ... why is that? Why have certain groups not benefited? ... Again in Khuzestan, ... we drove outside the city about 20 km and we visited the areas where large development projects are coming up - sugar cane plantations and other projects along the river - and the estimate we received is that between 200,000-250,000 Arab people are being displaced from their villages because of these projects. And the question that comes up in my mind is, why is it that these projects are placed directly on the lands that have been homes for these people for generations? I asked the officials, I asked the people we were with. And there is other land in Khuzestan where projects could have been placed which would have minimised the displacement."
Answer: Islam.
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? " - Jeremiah. 17:9
... can't say I feel too bad about this!
I remember the "jubs" as being everywhere. People washed their clothes, dishes and even bathed themselves and their children. The "jubs" also attract wild dogs commonly referred to as "jub dogs". Some people have adopted them as pets and imported them into the US.
Now it's a problem?
Payback's a ditch!
"there are thousands of people living with open sewers, no sanitation, no regular access to water, electricity and no gas connections ..."
Only thing missing is packs of wild dogs and I'm thinking Mexico.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Now the Iranians need to throw their "religion" out too. It's the only way to make Persia great again.
Islamists play the 'Israel' card the same way politicians and wack-job groups in the US play the race card.
" For the past 500 years, the region was called Arabistan by Persian rulers (signifying the territory’s Arab character). The central government changed the territory’s name to Khuzestan in 1936. Currently, Al-Ahwaz or Khuzestan is an area of 69,000 sq kilometres, which lies between South western Iran, bordering also Iraq, Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf.
(snipped from the home page of the link for the article)
http://www.ahwaz.org.uk/about.html
It looks like these guys are probably the same group as the Iraqi Shia, but who were on the wrong side of the British-imposed borders drawn post-WWI....they did the same thing to the Kurds, but split them 3 ways.
Forced ignorance.......the oppression of Islam.
Amen!
ping
Because it is the will of Allah. Obviously.
See #5...I guess it is Mexico in the Middle East.
Don't say that too loudly lest someone would want to start a humane pipeline for these mid east amigos to be our next crop of undocumented migrants.
Ya know, it'd be interesting just watching them try to swim across the pond to get here :)
Perhaps it is also the will of Jesus that little children should starve in Appalachia!
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