MY question to to Mr. Brett is: what confiscated land? whom the land was confiscated from? and when? What is “fair deal”?
Iranian Arabs have been living in peace with the rest of Iranians all the time except when British have tried to meddle with their affairs. I have no doubt that some injustice has been done to Arabs by Islamic republic regime (same as other ethnic groups) but that is not a justification for claims which have been instigated based on old colonialist policies of western greedy powers. Khuzestan, where I am from, is not home of Arabs only. Other ethnic Iranian groups have been in that region for thousands of years and Arabs just came in after invasion of Iranian lands by Islamic forces. Khuzestan is birth place of civilization on earth according to doccumented facts and living in that region for a few hundreds of years does not provide any ethnic group with status of being single owner of the land.
Speaking of “confiscation” and “occupation” in Khuzestan is just an indication that Mr. Brett does not really know what he is talking about! Those Arabs who are trying to push this idea with support of greedy colonialistic powers can cry as much as they wish and say whatever they want but they are no different than the regime which is currently ruling Iran as far as Iranian national interests. Iranian opposition groups of all kind, support human rights for all ethnic groups and if a few Arabs claim that they can not rely on Iranian opposition just means that they are after some reliable support from certain sources and for certain purposes and do not care about national interests. These Arabs should know that they can reach their goals about human rights if they work with the rest Iranian opposition as part of one nation. That’s the only way. I know for fact that the number of my Arab compatriots who think of themselves as part of Iranian nation is a lot larger than those who have allowed themselvs to be taken advantage of by greedy colinialistic powers in the past and present. That’s why many Iranian Arabs fought against Iraqi forces and gave their life.
