Leader of Ahwaz Movement murdered in Netherlands

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Leader of Ahwaz Movement murdered in
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November 09-2017
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Head of the Movement for Arab Struggle to Liberate Ahwaz from Iranian Occupation
Ahmad Mawla Abu Nahidh in an interview with Sky News Arabia. (Photo: Archive)
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WASHINGTON DC, United States (Kurdistan 24) – The head of a major ethnic liberation
movement in Iran, Ahmad Mawla Abu Nahidh, was assassinated Wednesday, Sky News
Arabia reported.

The director of the London-based Ahwaz Center for Media and Strategic Studies, Hassan
Radhi, disclosed news of the murder, as he accused Iran of killing Nahidh.
Nahidh headed the “Movement for Arab Struggle to Liberate Ahwaz from Iranian
Occupation.” He was killed by three bullets—one to his head and two to his heart— as he
stood outside the door of his home in the usually placid Dutch city of The Hague.
Dutch police managed to arrest one man, whom they caught fleeing the scene.
The assassination is reminiscent of earlier Iranian-sponsored assassinations in Europe of
leaders of the country’s ethnic minorities, including Kurdish leaders. In 1989, Dr. Abdel
Rahman Ghassemlou, head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, was murdered in
Vienna.
Three years later, Ghassemlou’s successor, Dr. Sadegh Sharaf Kandi, was murdered in
Berlin, along with three other men. In 1997, a German court issued an arrest warrant for
Iran’s intelligence minister, saying he had ordered the murders with the knowledge of
Iran’s political leadership.
Ahwazis are Arabs, one of several major non-Persian ethnic groups in Iran that also
include Kurds, Turks, and Baluch.
In 2015, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch both protested an Iranian
crackdown against Ahwazi Arabs, as the regime undertook a large-scale campaign of
arbitrary arrests in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, where Ahwazis live and
where most of Iran’s oil and gas reserves are located.
The arrests were triggered by mass protests that coincided roughly with the anniversary
of Ahwazi demonstrations a decade before.
Iran had demanded that Interpol arrest Nahidh, and his assassination is, almost certainly,
related to the escalating tensions between Iran, on the one hand, and Saudi Arabia and
the US on the other.

Those tensions have been most prominent elsewhere, like Lebanon, where Prime
Minister Saad Hariri resigned on Nov 4, charging that Iran was behind a plot to
assassinate him. On the same day, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen fired a ballistic
missile at Riyadh’s International Airport, where it was shot down by a Patriot missile.
But the tensions are evidently extending to other areas, as well. On Oct 25, Saudi Arabia’s
Acting Permanent Representative to the UN, Khalid Manzlawi, denounced Iran’s “racial
and religious discrimination against non-Persian people, such as Ahwazis, Kurds, Turks,
and Baluchis.”
Editing by Nadia Riva
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