After a lull, protests revive in Iran Jun 30, 2009
"Watching VOA every night, people call in from far-off provinces Baluchestan, Ahvaz, Ilaam, etc. to curse Khamenei openly and vehemently, and say that 70 percent voted Mousavi in their hometowns, large and small alike," says the witness. "It would appear, based on public feedback, that the election was indeed stolen ... and that this assertion is not mere speculation.". (Christian Science Monitor)
At least seven killed in Iran protests Jun 16, 2009
In the heavily Arab city of Ahvaz near the Iraqi border, a crowd of about 2,000 people chanted: "We don't want a dictator!" Police attacked some with batons. 1. (MSNBC -- International)
Obama 'troubled' by Iran violence Jun 16, 2009
Page last updated at 08:08 GMT, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 09:08 UK. Iran to hold election recount. (BBC News -- Americas)
* Arson attack kills five in Iranian border town Jun 3, 2009
Bombs then hit Tehran and the southwestern city of Ahvaz, which has a sizable Arab minority, killing eight people and wounding scores more. Meanwhile, Israel warned that Iran could have enough fissile material for its first nuclear bomb by the end of this year. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
* Ahmadinejad threatens to reveal all Jun 2, 2009
A bomb was found on board an Iranian airliner soon after takeoff late on Saturday, forcing it to return to the southwestern city of Ahvaz. Air guards chief Mohammad Hasan Kazemi called it a sabotage attempt apparently timed to show instability before the elections. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Five die in sectarian clashes in southeastern Iran; dozens reported injured Jun 2, 2009
Iranian authorities also discovered a bomb Saturday aboard a plane leaving Iran's southwest city of Ahvaz, which is home to many ethnic Arabs. The New York Times reported that former President Mohammad Khatami was expected to fly on the flight. (Boston Globe)
Bomb found, defused aboard Iranian jet Jun 1, 2009
The device was defused after the Tehran-bound Kish Air aircraft with 131 passengers on board made an emergency landing in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, the semi-official Fars news agency reported ... "Minutes after the ... Kish Air flight took off with 131 passengers from Ahvaz to Tehran, security personnel found a homemade bomb" on board, Fars reported ... Ahvaz is the capital of Khuzestan province, where many of Iran's oil fields are located. (MSNBC -- International)
Suspicious Package Forces Return of Iranian Airliner Jun 1, 2009
The plane, carrying 140 passengers, returned to an airport in the southwestern city of Ahvaz 15 minutes after takeoff Saturday after a passenger reported a suspicious package ... The flight was from Ahvaz to the capital, Tehran, about 500 miles to the northeast. (Fox News)
* Iranian security officials defuse bomb on flight Jun 1, 2009
The incident occurred on a Kish Air flight headed to Tehran from Ahvaz in the west of the country near the border with Iraq, the Fars news agency reported ... The plane landed immediately at Ahvaz airport and the bomb was defused ... It was the latest unrest to shake Iran in the run-up to the countrys presidential election on June 12, while Ahvaz itself has witnessed several deadly incidents in recent years. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Bomb found in toilet on Iran plane May 31, 2009
According to several Iranian news agencies, the bomb was discovered on a plane shortly after it took off from the oil-rich city of Ahvaz ... The plane turned back to Ahvaz for an emergency landing when the bomb was discovered. (BBC News -- Africa)
Iran defuses bomb on plane May 31, 2009
Iranian security officials have defused a handmade bomb on board a domestic flight headed from Ahvaz, in the west of Iran, to the capital Tehran, Fars news agency reported on Sunday ... "The plane landed immediately in Ahvaz airport and the bomb was defused." ... Ahvaz is the capital of Iran's oil-rich Khuzestan province, which borders Iraq and the Gulf. (iAfrica.com)
Gunmen attack Ahmadinejad election campaign centre May 30, 2009
" He said two campaign workers, Nasser and Khodadad Miri, received arm, stomach and shoulder wounds and were taken to hospital. The child was also shot in the stomach and was undergoing surgery, he told IRNA. "The men ran away, but the police chased and arrested them," Sheikhi said. A senior government official who declined to be named told AFP that incidents targeting any election candidates will be investigated. The attack on the mosque and Friday's shooting were reminiscent of a similar... (Channelnewsasia.com)
Timeline: Iran May 30, 2009
Bomb attacks in the southern city of Ahvaz - the scene of sporadic unrest in recent months - kill eight people and injure more than 40. 2006 February - IAEA votes to report Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear activities. (BBC News -- Africa)
Iran willing to break impasse with West Apr 16, 2009
Hard line students, surrounded by reformist students as they protest during a session of supporters of leading reformist candidate in upcoming Iranian presidential elections, Mir Hossein Mousavi, unseen, at Chamran university in Ahvaz, near Iran's southwestern border with Iraq, Wednesday, April 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian). (Globe and Mail)
Russia gas pact energizes Iran Feb 27, 2008
The first phase of early production from the giant Azadegan oilfield, west of Ahvaz in Iranian Khuzestan, is already on. According to Iranian estimates, Azadegan holds no less than 33 billion barrels of crude oil. (Asia Times Online)
IRAN VOWS SECOND NUKE PLANT Dec 18, 2007
The location is also sometimes spelled Darkhovin, or referred to by other nearby place names, including Ahvaz, Esteghlal and Karun. Today in Africa & Middle East. (The Drudge Report)
If Iran's Guards strike back ... Nov 30, 2007
A basic scenario involves a comprehensive US attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, naval forces, information and technology support system (especially those linked to nuclear sites in Bushehr, Isfahan and Tehran) and finally the bombing of IRGC ground force units stationed near the strategic cities of Abadan, Ahvaz, Chah Bahar, Dezful, Hamadan, Khoramshahr and Mashahd. The United States, possibly with the help of Israel, could help stave off Iranian retaliation by destroying Iran's command air... (Asia Times Online)
Moderate Quake Hits Iran, 30 Reported Hurt Nov 21, 2007
It was felt in the provincial capital Ahvaz and elsewhere. "Some 30 students were slightly hurt as they were trying to leave schools when the earthquake happened," ISNA news agency quoted a local official, Shapour Rostami, as saying. (Planet Ark, United States)
Quake hits Iranian oil-rich area Nov 20, 2007
The quake occurred near the town of Ghaleh-tal in an eastern part of Khuzestan province and the tremor was felt in the provincial capital Ahvaz and elsewhere, IRNA news agency said. Khuzestan is the heartland of the oil industry in the world's number four producer but most oil fields lie further west and south from the reported epicentre of the quake. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
IRAN'S ARAB UNREST Sep 6, 2007
Last month, bands of Arab youths ran riot in the streets of Ahvaz (Khuzestan's capital), attacking government offices and banks and setting official cars on fire ... Among them was Thamer Ahvazi, a top pop star. (New York Post -- Opinions)
IRAN BLACKS OUT DAY OF PROTEST Aug 14, 2007
Several other major cities saw similar demonstrations, including Ahvaz, Arak, Sanandaj, Shiraz and Tabriz. Everywhere, the protesters took care to keep their actions within the law. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Wahhabi opponent killed in Iran Jun 27, 2007
Hojjat ol-Eslam Seymari supervised 20 mosques and "stood against the Wahhabis' investment and strong onslaught in the city of Ahvaz", the paper added. The representative of Iran's Supreme Leader in Khuzestan Province said the cleric had been martyred "at the hands of the mercenaries of Satan". (BBC News -- Africa)
In Tehran's Martyrs' Museum, Iran courts new believers Jun 6, 2007
Martyrdom: Iran's supreme religious leaders loom over a martyrs' cemetery in Ahvaz, Iran. Scott Peterson/Getty Images. (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
Al Jazeera in Iran parliament ban May 7, 2007
Al-Jazeera's Tehran bureau was shut down by the authorities in April 2005 amid accusations of stirring up violence in its coverage of clashes in the ethnic Arab majority city of Ahvaz and only reopened 14 months later. Source: Agencies. (Aljazeera.Net)
Robert Tait: A bitter legacy Mar 30, 2007
I first became aware of this conviction 18 months ago on a visit to Ahvaz, capital of the south-western province of Khuzestan. A bomb attack - the latest in a series - had killed six people in the city's main street. (Guardian Unlimited)
Reporters on the Job Mar 27, 2007
Ultimately, permission was granted instead to visit two cities, Ahvaz and Dezful, both 45 miles from the Iraq border but close enough so that Dezful was hit by 180 Iraqi missiles (). David Clark Scott World editor. (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
How Iran's true believers pass the torch Mar 27, 2007
AHVAZ AND DEZFUL, IRAN - Mohamad Reza Rashidi's devotion is measured by the plastic water bottle he brings to the cemetery every few days to wash the dusty gravestone of his favorite martyr ... "It could be a message to tell the US that we are not afraid of them," he adds, standing in the expansive Ahvaz war cemetery amid a sea of flapping Iranian flags. (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
Bomb kills 18 on military bus in Iran Feb 15, 2007
Besides the violence in the southeast, ethnic Arab Sunni militants have been blamed for bombings in the western city of Ahvaz including blasts in 2006 that killed nine people. Iranian Kurds based in northern Iraq have also stepped up incursions into Iran. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Revolutionary Guards die in Iran border bus blast Feb 15, 2007
Eleven Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed yesterday when a bomb destroyed their bus in a volatile border area of Iran. The violence threatened to exacerbate tensions with the West, already high because of the stand-off over Iran s nuclear programme. (Times Online)
Iran to produce nuclear fuel for industrial uses soon Jan 4, 2007
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks to supporters during his visit to Ahvaz, 881 km (550 miles) south of Tehran, January 2, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo). (Xinhuanet, China)
Iran vows to 'humiliate' U.S. Jan 3, 2007
Speaking in the southwestern provincial capital of Ahvaz, Ahmadinejad said the Security Council's resolution last month was invalid and had left the world body's reputation in tatters ... Some people in the crowd in Ahvaz on Tuesday tried to remind the president of the need to address domestic problems. (CNN -- World)
Iran vows to give West countries "historic slap" if attacked Jan 3, 2007
"The Iranian nation will deliver a historic slap in the world powers' face if they resurrected again against Iran after supporting during his war with Iran," the president told a large crowd in Ahvaz, provincial capital of Khuzestan in the southwest. Ahmadinejad said the West only used the pretext of opposing nuclear weapons to prevent Iran from developing, adding that "we have done everything to convince these corrupt and selfish powers to believe our nuclear program is peaceful.". (People's Daily Online)
* Ahmadinejad says Iran's nuclear plans are still on Jan 3, 2007
"The Iranian nation is wise and will stick to its nuclear work and is ready to defend it completely," Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech to a rally in the southern city of Ahvaz. "The UN resolution against Iran's atomic work has no validity for Iranians.". (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Resolution 1737 against UN Charter: Iran Pres. Jan 3, 2007
Ahmadinejad, who arrived in the southwestern Khuzestan province Tuesday morning on a four-day visit along with his cabinet ministers, made the remark while addressing enthusiastic people of Ahvaz city ... " The president's current visit to the oil-rich province is his 24th to various provinces of the country since the start of his initiative of bringing the government closer to the people. LATEST NEWS . . . . RELATED NEWS . . . . . . . . . . EMAIL THIS ARTICLE Your Name: Your Own E-mail: E-mail... (IranMania News)
