Iranian Arab soccer pitch emerges as flashpoint in Saudi-Iranian proxy war

Police action in Awamiyah in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province

By James M. Dorsey

A soccer pitch in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, home to Iran’s Arab minority, has emerged as a flashpoint of anti-government protest at a time of rising Arab-Iranian tensions over the status of Shiite Muslim minorities in the Arab world, the crisis in Yemen, and the outlines of a…