Ahwaz was a rich and wealthy land, BUT… .

Ahwaz was a rich and wealthy land, but its resources and environment have been destructively exploited by Iran. At four billion barrels, Ahwaz has the world’s second largest oil reserves, but the region’s native Ahwazi Arab populations live in abject poverty. Ahwazi Arab children are suffering from severe malnutrition and anemia. They are wondering where the huge money received by the occupying Iranian state, through the work of dozens of companies in areas of gas refining and petrochemicals on Ahwazi territories, is going.