Source: www.bbc.com By Mohammad Heydari Translation by Iran Press Watch The “Baha’i problem” in Iran is one of the central predicaments for us. Baha’is are “the true Other ” to majority Shi’ites; how we deal with…
Monthly Archives For November 2016
Widespread Closures of Baha’i-Owned Businesses in Rasht
Source: javanehha Translation by Iran Press Watch The Office of Public Places in this city sealed the business premises of eleven Baha’i citizens in Rasht over the last few days: Faraj Farhangi, Touraj Farhangi, Mohammad Asadpour, Foad…
Expulsion of an Iranian Baha’i Student From Yazd University Because of Her Beliefs
Source: www.bahaicamp.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a report from the NO to the Harassment and Imprisonment of Baha’is in Iran Campaign, Raha Sedaghat, a Baha’i from Yazd, was expelled from university because of…
Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi: Iranian Government Should Recognize Civil Rights of Baha’is
Source: news.gooya.com Translation by Iran Press Watch About 132 business units and shops belonging to Baha’i compatriots have been sealed and closed under false pretexts in Iran during the last month. Baha’is do not have a…
Baha’i Zekrollah Rahmanian Was Fighting Cancer When His Shop Was Sealed – He Passed Away a Week Later
Source: www.bbc.com 15 November, 2016 Translation by Iran Press Watch Zekrollah Rahmanian was fighting cancer in the Imam Khomeini Hospital when he was notified that the Law Enforcement Forces of the Office of Public Properties had…
The Economic Strangulation of Baha’is in Iran
Source: Masih Alinejad A Jewish man, formally announced, and the media also wrote that, if Donald Trump really wants to do such a thing, I would be the first person to register as a Muslim.…
A Poem for Yaran
Source: Corrin J. Corbin By Corrin Corbin I have been a Baha’i for basically my entire life. My mother has been a Baha’i my entire life, therefore I was raised using the principles of the…
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…
Open Letter of Baha’i Community Leader, Fariba Kamalabadi, from Evin Prison to Her Grandchild Bahar
Source: www.hra-news.org Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News- Fariba Kamalabadi, one of the members of the Yaran of Iran, Baha’i community leaders, was arrested in 2008 and sentenced to twenty years in prison. A short…
A UN Committee Urges Iran to Remove Restrictions on Freedom of Thought
Source: www.bbc.com November 16, 2016 Translation by Iran Press Watch A UN Committee has urged the Iranian Government to end “arbitrary arrests” and “enforced disappearances”, and has expressed serious concern regarding severe restrictions on freedom of…
Open Letter to Bahram Ghasemi, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Regarding the Oppression of Its Baha’i Citizens
Source: Foaad Haghighi Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Dear Mr. Bahram Ghasemi, In your recent representation of your Ministry and the IRI, you have called the issues of human rights…
Baha’i Businesses Shuttered Across Iran in Ongoing Persecution Campaign
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Dozens of businesses in Iran owned by members of the Baha’i faith have been indefinitely shut down by the authorities after some owners closed their establishments to honor the birthdays of two of the…
UN Condemns Iran’s Harassment of Its Religious Monitories, Particularly Bahá’ís
Source: www.ecumenicalnews.com By Peter Kenny The Nov. 15 rebuke was the 29th such censure since 1985 for the Islamic Republic of Iran. It came in an annual resolution on human rights in Iran, approved by a…
Youngest Baha’i Prisoner, a 19-Year Old Girl from Zahedan
Source: www.bazdasht.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a report by Bazdasht, Tabassom Hosayni, who was born on 10 July 1997, is the youngest Baha’i prisoner. Tabassom Hosayni and her mother, Emilia Hakiman, were arrested…
Businesses of Two Baha’is in Karaj Sealed
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch The shops of two Baha’i citizens, Farrokh Bandi and Nabiolahi, have been sealed shut because of their belief in the Baha’i Faith, according to the BahaiNews. Based on…
“We too are Iranian and have a right to live.”
Source: www.humanrightsiniran.org November 12, 2016 Translation by Iran Press Watch A Baha’i resident of Karaj whose production workshop was sealed on 6 November 2016 by the Law Enforcement Forces of the Office of Public Property, said:…
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