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From the 1950s through the 1970s, radical Arab states from Nasser's Egypt and Saddam Hussein's Iraq, used the Arabistan issue as a cudgel to beat Iran.
Ulkemizde Erdem ve arkadaslarinin yaptigi cok merkezli calismada Arabistan'a seyahat eden hacilarda tespit edilen enfeksiyonlar degerlendirilmistir.
Migrations by Arab nationals of petroleum/water-rich Khuzestan (in Arabic called Arabistan) from Iran's entire Iranian Gulf coast changed the demographic make-up of both shaikhdoms - Bahrain and Qatar.
Arabistan was annexed to Iran in April 1925 by the Pahlavi monarchy.
Arabistan is the original name of an Arab populated region stretching along what the six Saudi-led Arab GCC states call Arabian Gulf and what Iran calls Persian Gulf.
Velayats, located on the edge of Safavid jurisdiction and largely inhabited by fiercely independent tribal people, might, in their relationship with the Safavids, be best described as protectorates, a convenient state "between annexation and mere alliance." (32) The five velayats in late Safavid times were 'Arabistan (modern Khuzistan), Luristan, Georgia, Kurdistan, and Bakhtiyari territory, in that order of ranking.
And if those terms are not put in writing, the GCC should work to weaken the Iranian regime once and for all, beginning with material support for the oppressed Ahwazi Arab citizens of Iranian-occupied Arabistan -- a region Iran now calls Khuzestan, which supplies the country with most of its oil and gas.
That said, Canbakal does not shy away from discussing what was distinctive about 'Ayntab; its location in a frontier zone between the Arab lands ('Arabistan) and Anatolia (RQm), its proximity to the migratory routes of major Turkoman and Kurdish tribes, and the vitality of its economy, based mostly on viticulture and textile production, no doubt helped to shape the town's politics.
The Arabistan of Akakhel Bara tehsil, who was living as displaced person in Jalozai camp, said that two of their kids were killed due to measles epidemic and 10 others were taken to hospital.
The Arabs of Iran's petroleum/water-rich Arabistan (Khuzestan) accuse the theocracy of racial discrimination and of diverting their Karun River (called the source of great civilisations) to Isfahan.
(3) Ancak Suudi Arabistan (6) ve Hindistan'da (7) yapilan iki ayri calismada, hastaligin bu bolgelerde bati toplumuna gore daha erken yasta basladigi ifade edilmistir.
With the onset of Ramadan, the whole of "Arabistan," as my friend quaintly calls the Arab world, indeed metamorphoses into something that is out of this world.