Thursday, August 23, 2007

Iran arrests members of “separatist group” in oil-rich western province of Khuzestan

The Middle East Times website had this story out yesterday that went in part like this... Iran has arrested several members of a “separatist group” in its oil-rich western province of Khuzestan, and seized a stash of weapons from their hideout, Iranian media reported Wednesday... “The aim of this separatist group was to create division and also to propagate religious sectarian division,”...
Read this news in full at link below...
Iran arrests 'separatists' in oil-rich province

>>> ThePeninsulaQatar.com website has this take today on the story...
Iran arrests separatists in oil-rich southwest

(Map Courtesy of RFE/RL)

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