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Ethnic Arabs in Iran Protest Water Shortages
(Al Arabiya) Shima Silavi - In the past two weeks, the Arabistan region of southwestern Iran has witnessed protests against water shortages. The government has been transferring water from the southwestern region to Iran's central plateau for years, with the help of 90 dams and several tunnels built by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards. This policy has destroyed the livelihood of thousands of marsh Arabs. Hundreds of villages have been wiped out. Iran's water crisis is manmade and the result of water mismanagement for the past four decades.