[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

These folks are, I guess, Shiite Arabs, essentially the same people as the Shiite majority in Iraq. I would guess that this would make a Shiite Iraq alliance with Iran much less likely.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Are the Ahwazis Muslims or something else?

Dispicable, in any case.

[freedom44]

Ping. Interesting that the article doesn't bring up the fact that the regime 'themselves' are 'Arabic' in culture, even though they're Persians they embrace an Arabic ideology, culture, mentality instead of a Persian one.

[norton]

Persians are not Arabs.
Either might be muslim.
We are being attacked by muslim fanatics - islamists.
I don't much care where they come from, but so far most terrorists have been non Persian.
However, for all their protestations of being separate, persians have done squat to differentiate themselves from the islamist loons that happily murder westerners and other muslims on a daily basis - and they have allowed a government that seeks to subvert civilization wherever it encounters it.
The choice seems to be fight them or bow to them...Persians, Lebanese, and FrenchBelgianSwedish/Etc. appear to have settled for the latter.