Category: Uprising, from Wikidata’s class “rebellion”
1979 Khuzestan insurgency
Part of: 1979 Iranian ethnic unrest Wikidata
Wikidata classes on our event-class list: rebellion (all its classes: Wikidata item)
The 1979 Khuzestan uprising was one of the nationwide uprisings in Iran which erupted in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution. The unrest was fed by Arab demands for autonomy. The uprising was effectively quelled by Iranian security forces, resulting in more than a hundred people on both sides killed.
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1979 Khuzestan insurgency. (2026, September 15). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1979_Khuzestan_insurgency&oldid=1375000933
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“1979 Khuzestan insurgency.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 15 Sept. 2026, en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1979_Khuzestan_insurgency&oldid=1375000933.
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