(Reuters) Isabel Coles - Arab insurgents blew up a gas pipeline in Iran last week and dedicated the attack to their brothers-in-arms in Syria. The blast hit a pipeline feeding a petrochemical plant in Mahshahr in Iran's southwest, home to most of its oil reserves and to 1.6 million ethnic Arabs, known as Ahwazis. "This heroic operation is a message to the Persian enemy that the national Ahwazi resistance has the ability and initiative to deliver painful blows to all the installations of the Persian enemy, inside Ahwaz and out," the Mohiuddin Al Nasser Martyrs Brigade said in a statement. Arabistan was a semi-autonomous sheikhdom until 1925, when it was brought under central Iranian government control, marking the start of what some Ahwazis describe as a systematic campaign to Persianize if not obliterate them.
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