Document #1249534
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
For general information on Arabs in Iran,
please consult the attached documents.
The following information was provided
during a 29 January 1997 telephone interview with a specialist on
Iran in England.
The source stated that the Arab minority
remained loyal to the Iranian state during the Iran-Iraq war
because most of them are Shi'a, especially in the Khuzestan
province. In general, the Arabs of Iran have little sympathy for
the Iraqi regime during the war with Iran. The situation has not
changed since the end of the war because the Iraqi regime has
mistreated Iraq's Shi'a Arabs.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
Reference
Specialist on Iran, England. 29 January
1997. Telephone interview.
Attachments
Iran: A Country Study. 1987.
Edited by Helen Chapin Metz. Washington, DC: Secretary of the Army,
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Mideast Mirror [London]. 10
June 1993. Vol. 7, No. 110. "Proxy War Between Iraq and Iran."
(NEXIS)
United Press International (UPI). 25
August 1994. BC Cycle. "U.N. Group Condemns Iranian Terrorism."
(NEXIS)
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Two oral sources did not have
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