Country’s Highest Poverty Rate in Ahwaz

Over the last century, the Arab, Fars and Lur populations of Khuzestan saw firm borders placed on regions previously controlled by tribes under the auspices of central Iranian governments. Following the 1979 revolution that ushered in the Islamic republic, these ethnic and religious identities became even more accentuated. This changing dynamic between state and people has evoked questions of integration, ethnic rights and state power.