Iran: unlawful act

British Ahwazi Friendship Organization (BAFS) writes on its website that the Iranian government cut the watersupplies of some villages on the leftbank of the Shatt Al-Arab.
Some reports say this may cause social unrest and outbreak of disease.
Local people have claimed that the cut in drinking water is either in revenge for recent attacks on visitors to the Iran-Iraq War battlefields or in order to pressure Ahwazi Arabs to leave the area.
Affected villages include Qufbeh Menuuhi and Khosroabad (Khazalabad) around Abadan and villages up to Khorramshahr (Mohammareh).
Although the area has many large rivers, such as the Karoon and the Karkeh as well as the Shatt al-Arab, water has become salinated by intensive sugar cane production.
The extent of the river pollution in the area has led Iranian scientists to declare it an environmental "crisis zone."


In a message sent to the British Ahwazi Friendship Society (BAFS), the Sa'ad Ibn Abi Waqqas Brigade has claimed responsibility for an armed attack on a bus travelling along the Bostan-Howaiza road on 27 March.
According to the message the Brigade killed four members of the Iranian security forces and injured seven.
Reports in the official Iranian media suggest that eight security personnel have been injured in the attack, but made no mention of deaths. The Iranian authorities have blamed the incident on separatist groups.
The statement was forwarded to BAFS by the Ahwaz Liberation Organisation, whose leader, Faleh Abdullah Al-Mansouri, is currently in prison in Iran.
The ALO emerged in 1990, created by three armed Ahwazi separatist groups that were active during the 1980s.
The relationship between the ALO and the Sa'ad Ibn Abi Waqqas Brigade is unclear.

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