Arab Protests in Iran: Water Crisis or Systemic Racism?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Indeed, after the discovery of oil, people from different ethnic backgrounds, especially Persians and Lors, moved to Ahvaz to work in the oil industry.
54% : Iran is an ethnically diverse country.
47% : From the lack of job opportunities in the oil industry to exclusion of ethnic rights defenders at the provincial and national levels, all the evidence proves ethnic-based discriminations.
46% : It is generally assumed that since Iran is a Shia-Islamic theocratic regime, the nature of discrimination in Iran is sectarian too.
43% : In this sense, Iran is a majority-minority country with no ethnicity larger than 50 percent of the population.
43% : But this is not the case in discriminations against Arabs and other ethnic groups such as Azerbaijani Turks in Iran.
40% : Abandoning Some Assumptions About Discriminations in Iran
38% : Iran suffers from water shortage, however, the water crisis in the Ahvazi region including the oil-rich Khuzestan province is not merely due to a shortage.
36% : Ahvazi Arabs have been protesting in the majority of the Arab populated cities of Iran since July 15.
36% : All the evidence shows that it is not merely about water mismanagement, indeed, the root cause of the problem is systemic racism against the Arab ethnic minority in Iran of approximately 5 million people.
36% : For instance, Arabs have been blamed for bringing Islam to Iran and any other backwardness in the Iranian nationalist account of history.
36% : Currently, the oil-rich Khuzestan province is one of the poorest provinces in Iran.
34% : Portraying Iran as a homogenous country by those groups who are interested in maintaining Persian domination, including the government or the mainstream opposition, would lead to a reductionist understanding of a complex society.
34% : Portraying Iran as a homogenous country by those groups who are interested in maintaining Persian domination, including the government or the mainstream opposition, would lead to a reductionist understanding of a complex society.

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