The evening news of the Israeli Channel 2 TV screened a story about bloody clashes between Khuzistan Arabs and Iranian armed forces in this province's capital, Ahwaz, that resulted in more than 120 dead.
Strangely enough, the mainstream media web outlets I checked, CNN, the Beeb, AP and Reuters do not have anything on these events, and all I could find was the very toned-down (in the Iranian's favor) AlJazeera story:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5810343A-3ADB-4F0E-9BB1-272C450F74B9.htm
and the debka.com one, that mirror what the Israeli telly had to say:
>> DEBKAfile reports: More than 120 killed in fierce clashes between ethnic Arabs and Iranian security forces in Ahwaz in S. Iranian Khuzestan on Iraqi border. Many protesters arrested.
Three-day outbreak sparked by alleged letter by Iranian former vice president Ali Abtahi calling for relocation of non-Arabs to make them majority in oil-rich region. Abtahi denied he was behind letter.<<
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