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Ahwaz Front In Iran Seeks Protection For Iranian Arab Refugees In Syria

The Popular Democratic Front in Ahwaz, in Khozestan, Iran, has asked Arab League secretary-general Amr Moussa to prevent Syria from extraditing to Iran Arab refugees who fled to Syria from Ahwaz seeking political asylum.

The front also warned of ethnic cleansing in Ahwaz by the Iranian regime, and of repression of the Ahwazi Arab people.

Source: Al-Siyassa, Kuwait, October 5, 2008

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