Source: www.theislamicmonthly.com By Hasel Afshar, as told to TIM Editors. In Iran, I was persecuted for not being Muslim. In America, I was targeted because someone thought I was Muslim. I was born in a small&hellip
Miscellaneous
Hate Graffiti Sprayed in Home of Iran Refugee
Source: koin.com Every room in the house was damaged Chris Holmstrom and KOIN 6 News Staff PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Troutdale man returned home after 3 days out of town to find his house extensively damaged&hellip
50 Iranian-Americans you Should Know: Payam Zamani
Source: www.iranwire.com By NATASHA SCHMIDT Payam Zamani is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor. His company One Planet Ops is a hybrid tech firm that runs a suite of online technology businesses in the real estate, home improvement,&hellip
Towards a History of Iran’s Baha’i Community During the Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah, 1941-1979
Irannamag By Mina Yazdani Moving away from simplistic and monolithic narratives, this paper investigates the multi-layered, multi-faceted history of the Baha’i community of Iran during the reign of the last Pahlavi monarch. It argues that the&hellip
Baha’is of Iran website launches
Source: Baha’i World News Service Following the wave of national Baha’i websites that have launched in recent years, the site of the Baha’i community of Iran went online earlier today. The website, which can be&hellip
I fled Iran after being imprisoned for my religion. Now …
Source: www.thetab.com ‘You never think the horror stories are going to happen to you’ Born in Tehran, Iran, Nasim Biglari is a twenty-nine year-old visual art and media student at the University of California, San Diego.&hellip
Dr. King’s Dream and a Prisoner in Baghdad 150 Years Ago
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com By Homa Sabet Tavangar1 In anticipation of the Martin Luther King holiday, I wanted to show my daughters the St. Francis College Bulletin of 1976 that featured a photo of my mother studying with her&hellip
Apostasy in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Source: www.iranhrdc.org (July 30, 2014) – IHRDC’s latest 50-page report, Apostasy in the Islamic Republic of Iran, details the jurisprudential as well as the legal context in which apostasy cases are prosecuted in the Islamic&hellip
Non-Persian Iran
Source: www.jewishpolicycenter.org Kenneth R. Timmerman • Winter 2017 When most people think of Iran, they think “Death to America,” terrorists and turbans, evil-looking beards and missiles rising from bright, arid canyons. If they think further, some&hellip
Bahá’í Temple of Santiago – Tourist Attraction, Spiritual Landmark
Source: impresa.elmercurio.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Open to the public since mid-October, the Bahá’í House of Worship for South America, located in the Andean foothills of the community of Peñalolén, attracts more and more visitors&hellip
Ayatollah Khomeini: “Deviant Baha’i Sect ‘Apostates’ and ‘Unclean'”
Source: www.ghatreh.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Introduction (by Iran Press Watch): Baha’is have been persecuted in Iran since the Faith was initiated in 1844 by the delaration of the Bab that He was revealing a&hellip
The Banished Mountain Biker
Source: www.5280.com Once at the top of the cycling world, an Iranian refugee living in Golden fights to regain his pole position. BY RACHEL STURTZ AUGUST 2016 Sina Solouksaran walked into the office of the National Olympic&hellip
Iranian Artists Are Under Attack And We All Need To Care
Source: thoughtcatalog By Tara Abhasakun On July 2, Iranian-Canadian artist Parviz Tanavoli was scheduled for a flight from Tehran to London, where he planned to speak at the British museum. His plans were canceled when airport security confiscatedhis&hellip
A Cry from the Heart …
Source: www.noghtenazar.org Translation by Iran Press Watch There are some court judges who, based on mere hatred and prejudice against Baha’is, have signed the final verdict of twenty Baha’is without a glance at their files ‒&hellip
Yemen: Baha’i Adherent Faces Death Penalty
Source: www.hrw.org (Sanaa) – Yemeni authorities should drop all charges against a member of the Baha’i faith detained since December 2013, apparently for his religious beliefs. Prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty for Hamed Kamal Muhammad&hellip
The Man Behind Iran’s Most Famous Tower
Source: www.bbc.com By Rozita Riazati For 45 years, Iran’s most famous modern monument, the Azadi (Freedom) Tower in Tehran, has been the backdrop to every major news story coming out of the country. A plaza for&hellip
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