GENEVA, 30 January (BWNS) – The destruction earlier this month of a cemetery in Iran used for the mass burial of hundreds killed in the aftermath of the Islamic revolution in 1979 is an outrageous…
Monthly Archives For January 2009
I Condemn Publication of the Baha’i Names!
Editor’s Note: We live in a new moment of history. For the first time in the entire history of the Baha’i Faith, Iranian intellectuals, journalists, university professors and generally Iranians of all walks of life…
Prayer for Prisoners
Editor’s Note: Iran Press Watch is pleased to share an authentic prayer of Baha’u’llah in Arabic for protection and delivery of Baha’i prisoners. This prayer is accompanied by special instructions revealed by Baha’u’llah pertaining to…
Zhinous Sobhani and Citizenship Rights
By Taqi Rahmani Zhinous Sobhani has been arrested. Those who believe in their own humanity don’t oppress the weak. But in the calculus of power there is no such consideration. To oppress the weak, to…
Attack on the Baha'is of Mashhad
The agents of the Ministry of Intelligence raided once again the homes of ten Baha’is in Mashhad and arrested two Baha’is. Yesterday, January 26, the Iranian security forces raided Baha’is homes in Mashhad in a…
Iran: Using terror internally and abroad
Editor’s note: The following article was written by Wahied Wahdat-Hagh and is reposted here due to its importance for our readers’ information. A german translation can be found at http://europeandemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13322&catid=4&Itemid=22 On 14 January Iranian secret…
Hardliners are in Power at the Judiciary
Abdol-Fattah Soltani is an Iranian human rights attorney and co-founder of the recently shut Center for the Defenders of Human Rights. Rooz spoke with him about the closure and related issues. “Power in the judiciary…
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…
10 Homes raided in Mashhad – 2 Baha'is Arrested
(HRA Iran) The Department of Intelligence visited the home of ten Bahais and subsequently arrested two of those visited. In an organized and systematic manner, the Iranian Security Forces, after attacking homes in Sari, Semnan,…
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…
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…
IRNA releases CDs on "the misguided sect of Baha'ism"
In yet another attempt to rouse the Iranian populace against the Baha’i Faith, earlier this week (18 January 2009), the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the country’s official national news outlet, announced the release and…
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…
Why are they Afraid of the Dead?
By Monireh Baradaran Have you read this news? “Last night, at midnight, a number of plain-clothes officers attacked the Baha’i Cemetery in Qa’emshahr with a lorry and a bulldozer; and set out to remove the…
Recent Allegations on Ebadi's daughter being Baha'i
Iranian media outlets have recently made allegations that Shirin Ebadi’s daughter, a former law student, was converted to the Baha’i Faith by McGill law professor and human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan, a move made undoubtedly…
Why are Baha’is “Ritually Impure”?
Grand Ayatollah Siyyid Muhammad-Sadiq Rawhani was asked, “Why do we consider the Baha’is ritually impure?” He issued a religious ruling over his seal on this question and answered: “He is the All-Knowing! Because an infidel…
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