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Soccer riots reflect long-standing discontent in Iran’s predominantly Arab Khuzestan

Soccer riots reflect long-standing discontent in Iran’s predominantly Arab Khuzestan

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Mar 22, 2015
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By James M. Dorsey

Long-simmering discontent in Ahwaz, the soccer-crazy, predominantly ethnic Arab capital of Iran’s Khuzestan province that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein unsuccessfully tried to exploit when he launched the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, exploded on the pitch earlier this month during an Asian championship League qualifier between the city’s st…

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