يوم الشهيد الأحوازي: خلود الدم، وصوت الأرض

علي شريفي.

In Iran's political geography, children face numerous environmental problems that impact their normal lives, and may even lead to their loss of life as a result of the surrounding environment and the pollutants that now fill their world.
In a statement, Iranian Health Minister Mohammad Reza Zafarqandi admitted that Iran's political geography causes approximately 50,000 children to lose their lives annually due to the pollutants surrounding them.
Zafarqandi pointed out that the pollution surrounding children causes them to suffer from many chest and respiratory diseases, and thus they may lose their lives as a result of these environmental pollutants, especially in the southern regions.
Zafar Qandi emphasized that high levels of air pollution not only affect the surrounding environment, but are also an indicator of a large number of children and the elderly suffering from respiratory diseases that can lead to death.
In occupied Ahwaz, daily weather reports indicate high levels of air pollution due to exhaust fumes from oil refineries and petrochemical plants, as well as weak environmental oversight of these factories and refineries.
It is estimated that some Ahwazi cities are turning red due to high levels of air pollution. Therefore, all precautions must be taken to prevent the rise in infection and death rates from chest and respiratory diseases.
Reports from hospitals in Ahwaz, the capital, indicate that the number of people suffering from chest diseases who visit hospitals on a regular basis exceeds 2,000 people daily, the majority of whom are children.
The increasing incidence of chest and respiratory diseases among children in occupied Ahwaz has become a major problem in light of the poor medical services and shortage of medicines. This may force families to travel to other provinces within Iran's political geography. Consequently, those infected may be exposed to more complications due to the long hours of travel.
The air pollution crisis in occupied Ahwaz is a major problem. Some environmental activists assert that this crisis is artificially created by the occupation authorities, who fail to regularly monitor oil refineries and petrochemical plants.
Evidence of this is that when Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visited Ahwaz a few months ago, the sky was clear, the atmosphere was bright, and there were no exhaust fumes or environmental problems. As soon as he left Ahwaz, the situation returned to normal, reflecting the racist policies of the Persian occupation against the Ahwazi Arab people.

14/5/2025
media center of the Ahwazi Democratic Front (ADF)
translated by: Abdolreza Savari

لايزال اهمال سلطات الاحتلال الفارسي العنصري تجاه ابناء الشعب العربي الاحوازي مستمرا، حتى بلغ الامر الى المستشفيات، حيث لم يعد هناك مجالا خاليا من الفساد والاهمال.

15/05/2025

يسعى الاحتلال الفارسي العنصري الى اتباع كافة السبل لافقار ابناء الشعب العربي الاحوازي، فالبنظر إلى فئة العمال، سواء أكانوا على رأس العمل فإنهم يعانون الحصول على رواتبهم.

13/05/2025

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته،

The racist Persian occupation continues to commit the most heinous crimes against the Ahwazi Arab people, depriving them of their most basic rights: education and the provision of a safe environment for learning.
occupation policy is based on spreading ignorance and impoverishing the Ahwazi Arab people so that it can easily and conveniently plunder their wealth and the resources of their country, without any objections, and so that the appointment of settlers in all Ahwazi interests and factories becomes an extremely easy matter.
In order for the occupation to begin implementing this dirty policy, it had to destroy the Ahwazi schools by impoverishing them and not equipping them on a regular basis, in addition to the environmental and natural disasters that repeatedly strike Al_Ahwaz.
The occupation continues to neglect schools and teachers in occupied Ahvaz. With the announcement of the Persian occupation's representative, Governor Reza Mowli Zadeh, to the city of Al-Falahiyah, many of the city's residents took the initiative to welcome him.

But the reception this time was completely different, as the students raised banners on which they wrote: “We have the right to good schools suitable for receiving education. This is one of our most basic rights, and you must provide it for us.”
They raised banners reading, "Ahwaz is rich in resources and goods, but it is one of the poorest regions in Iran's political geography, thanks to the racist policies of the occupation against the Arab Ahwazi people."
In a statement to them, the city’s residents said that our schools have sloping roofs that are liable to collapse, which makes us victims of the racist policies of the occupation. It may also turn the classrooms into a graveyard for the students if the roofs collapse on them.
They added that schools lack good ventilation as summer approaches and temperatures in occupied Ahwaz rise dramatically during the summer.
Not to mention the schools' lack of security and safety facilities. Although there are schools in the areas inhabited by settlers, they are completely different from the schools of the people of Al_Ahwaz.
Ahwazi schools are facing a major staffing crisis due to the lack of new appointments, despite the unemployment that is ravaging Ahwaz despite the region's abundant wealth and resources.

8/5/2025
media center of the Ahwazi Democratic Front

translated by: Abdolreza Savari