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English: Revolt in Persia The uprising of the Arabs of Khuzistan against the Persian government appears to have been, for the moment crushed. That this is not the end of matter however, even the government in Tehran knows by now. The people of Khuzistan are of different race, language and religion from the Persians, only the tenuous historical reasoning of those in control in Tehran holds them within the empire. Moreover Khuzistan for generations enjoyed an autonomy which Reza Shah Pahlavi abruptly withdrew in 1925 when he marched his armies to Mohammerah,the persians can scarcely expect a pride fanatical race like sunni Arabs to submit to the dominion of a people whom they consider to be decadent and heretical. The unwillingness of great Britain to assume any additional responsibilities in the part of the world was responsible for the fact that Arabistan was not in corporated into the kingdom of Iraq at the end of the war. Logically the district rulled by the Shaikh of Mohammerah has no business in the Persian empire at all. It the ideas of colonel Lawrence had been followed out by those who then governed Britain Arabistan would have formed part of a great new kingdom of Arabia together with Syria, Palestine and Iraq and the Arabian peninsula, One reason why England must always hesitate where Arabistan concerned is the fact that Anglo-Persian oil company is economic dictator of the country. The oil fileds of Arabistan are among the richest in the world any attempt to detach the country from the Persia would be hailed as a cynical piece of aggression. Actually therefore the Arabs of the south west would appear to be condemned to a long period of enforced union with Persia so long as this condition obtains revolts probably are inevitable. The Shaikh of Mohammerah the feudal ruler of Arabistan still remains a prisoner in tehran in spite of the most solemn promisses given by the shah there and his cabinet. his share of his taxes of his country is controlled by the persians and pocketed by them. it may be that the british are too wearied by the endless bickering in that part of the world to exert themselves in behalf if their proteges at any rate they permit the shaikh to remain in what is virtually imprisonment and they do not try to protect the Arabs of Arabistan. the end of muddle a mudlle of race religion and oil seems distant indeed