2005 Ahvaz unrest

2005 Ahvaz unrest
2005 Ahvaz unrest
Part of Arab separatism in Khuzestan
	Iranian Khuzestan province
Date	15–18 April 2005
Methods	Demonstrations, riots
Resulted in	Unrest quelled
Parties
Iranian Arabs	Iranian Government
Lead figures
	No centralized leadership Ali Khamenei; Supreme Leader of Iran Mohammad Khatami; President of Iran
Casualties
Death(s)	1–20 (Iranian sources); 15–50 (external sources)
Injuries	dozens
Arrested	hundreds arrested

2005 Ahvaz unrest^[2]^[5] or 15 April Ahvaz Protests^[3] were violent riots, initiated by Iranian Arabs in the city of Ahvaz in southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan. The unrest erupted on 15 April 2005, and lasted for 4 days. Initially, the Iranian Interior Ministry stated that only one person had been killed, however an official at a hospital in Ahvaz said that there were between 15 and 20 mortal casualties.^[2] Government officials blamed the unrest on Britain, whose troops based just across the border in southern Iraq.^[6] Following the unrest, several bombings were carried out in Ahvaz, killing 28 people.^{[citation needed]} In 2006, Iran executed five Arab separatists, convicted of carrying out the bombings in 2005.^[6]

^ Cite error: The named reference nytimes was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b ^c Dr. Babak Ganji. Civil Military Relations, State Strategies & Presidential Elections in Iran. Conflict Studies Research Centre, Middle East Series, June 2005: p.12.
^ ^a ^b Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (8 March 2006). "Iran". US Department of State. Retrieved 2 July 2011. "On 15 April, protests in Ahwaz followed the publication of a letter..."
^ Cite error: The named reference alarabiya14 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Rasmus C. Elling. State of Mind, State of Order: Reactions to Ethnic Unrest in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Wiley publishing doi:10.1111/j.1754-9469.2008.00028.x. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism Volume 8, Issue 3, pages 481–501, December 2008. "...The first, which will be called the Ahvaz unrest, took place in the south-western Iranian province of Khuzestan, which borders Iraq, and in particular in the regional capital of Ahvaz..."
^ ^a ^b "Iran hangs Arab separatists". Al Jazeera. 21 December 2006. Retrieved 2 July 2011.

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[ganji-2] Dr. Babak Ganji. Civil Military Relations, State Strategies & Presidential Elections in Iran. Conflict Studies Research Centre, Middle East Series, June 2005: p.12.

[state-3] Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (8 March 2006). "Iran". US Department of State. Retrieved 2 July 2011. "On 15 April, protests in Ahwaz followed the publication of a letter..."

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[rasmus-5] Rasmus C. Elling. State of Mind, State of Order: Reactions to Ethnic Unrest in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Wiley publishing doi:10.1111/j.1754-9469.2008.00028.x. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism Volume 8, Issue 3, pages 481–501, December 2008. "...The first, which will be called the Ahvaz unrest, took place in the south-western Iranian province of Khuzestan, which borders Iraq, and in particular in the regional capital of Ahvaz..."

[aljazeera2006-6] "Iran hangs Arab separatists". Al Jazeera. 21 December 2006. Retrieved 2 July 2011.

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