Editor’s Note: The following account is by Faran Khavan-Yaghma, a Baha’i student recently expelled from a university in Mazandaran because of his religion. This account is provided below in translation by Iran Press Watch. In&hellip
Denial of Education
An Account of an Expelled Baha'i Student
Editor’s Note: Iran Press Watch is grateful to have received the following account from a Baha’i young adult in Iran, whom we will only identify by his first name, Ali-Reza. This account is offered below&hellip
My Expulsion from University
By Sina Dana Editor’s Note: Iran Press Watch was saddened to learn of the recent expulsion of three Baha’i university students (http://www.iranpresswatch.org/2009/03/expulsion-3-sahand/), and has hastened to publish below in translation an account shared by one&hellip
Expulsion of Three Baha'i Students from Sahand University
On Wednesday, 4 March 2009, Gooya and Iran Press News reported: Three students at the medical school of Sahand University were expelled on the grounds that they were Baha’is. Yesterday, March 3, three students at&hellip
I answer, therefore I am!
At a time when various governmental resolutions are regularly being issued condemning the human rights violations of its Islamic government, Iran continues its record of misdeeds in spite of what the rest of the world&hellip
Interview with an Iranian Baha'i Student
Last winter semester (2007/08) 1000 Baha’i students had passed their entrance exams for university. 800 of them were denied entrance because of “incomplete files”. Sholeh is one of them. We hear her story… What made&hellip
Baha'i Emphasis on the Education of Girls in Iran
Background In their approach to education, Baha’is were at the forefront of educational advances that were occurring in Iran between the end of the 19th and start of the early 20th century. The traditional educational&hellip
Education: A Historical Commitment of the Baha'is of Iran
While exclusion from education is a grievous wrong in any circumstances, the situation for Iranian Baha’is is compounded by the degree to which the sacred writings of the Baha’i Faith stress the primary importance of&hellip
Expelled from School: The Case of Sina Haghighi
Editor’s Note: Sina Haghighi was a third year student in Kashan’s secondary school – the equivalent of the ninth grade in the West. The principle of the school summoned Sina on Tuesday, 2 December 2008,&hellip
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Meeting of the Council in Defense of the Right to Education with Political and Social Activists
At 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, a group of students expelled from universities or otherwise discriminated against were represented by the Council in Defense of the Right to Education and met with a number of political&hellip
Baha’i Students’ Open Letter on Student Day
In the charged atmosphere after the CIA-supported military coup of August 1953 which brought Muhammad-Reza Pahlavi back to the throne and suppressed a popular uprising in support of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq, university students in Iran&hellip
Denial of Education: An Appeal by an Academic
On 30 October 2005, Dr. Christopher Buck wrote the following letter to several officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran serving in the United States, Canada and the Great Britain, in addition to sharing it&hellip
Muslim Students Protest Baha’i Expelled from Iranian University
(From MidEastYouth.org) One of the weapons the Iranian government has employed to suppress its Baha’i population is denying its youth their right to an education, in what can only be described as an intellectual cleansing.&hellip
Iranian Baha'i told "Your Education has been Terminated"
by Barney Leith Like thousands of other hopeful young Iranians Ameed Saadat sat Iran’s 2008 national university entrance examination. He passed was accepted to study hotel management at Goldasht College in Kelardasht, Mazandaran, and began&hellip
A Professor’s Account of the Expulsion of His Baha’i Students
[Professor Saeed Hanaee Kashani teaches English literature at Shaheed Beheshti University.] Last Monday, I was teaching a class at 8 o’clock in the morning. My students and I were reading aloud a text in English.&hellip
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