Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to a report by BahaiNews, on Sunday morning, February 12, 2017, security forces in the city of Shiraz in Fars province arrested two Baha’is, Farham Sabet and…
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Three Baha’is From Kerman Arrested
Source: BahaiNews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to BahaiNews, today, Wednesday February 8th, 2017, Ehsan Amirinia, Nima Rajabzadeh and Arman Bandi, three Baha’is from the city of Kerman, were detained by provincial Intelligence and…
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.…
Iran: Overcoming Persecution to Graduate
Source: Study International Staff The Bahais are a small religious group in Iran, barely making up one percent of this Muslim nation. Called ‘apostates’ and reduced to a ‘political sect’, the government neither recognises nor protects…
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…
Iran’s Baha’i and the Freedom Tower
Source: www.internationalaffairs.org.au By Michael Day In the lead-up to Christmas, the United Nations General Assembly passed its 29th resolution since 1985 drawing attention to human rights violations in Iran. Among the groups persecuted, followers of the…
Closure of Baha’i-Owned Shops in Iran Continues
Source: Bahainews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch The business place of Nosratollah Takapooy in the city of Bijar in Kurdestan province has been sealed by agents of the Office of Public Places. He has 56 years…
The Crush Continues: Rouhani and the Ban on Baha’i Education
Source: www.iranwire.com AIDA GHAJAR President Hassan Rouhani and his government have failed to ease pressure on Iran’s Baha’i community. In fact, in some cases, the persecution against Iran’s largest religious minority has intensified. Since Rouhani and…
After More Than 4 Years, Baha’i Shops Still Closed in Hamadan (Includes Fully Documented Report)
Source: Bahainews1 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the Bahainews website, after 4 years the shops of Baha’is in Hamadan remain closed by Iranian officials. According to a Bahainews report, on November 4, 2012,…
Search and Arrest of Four Baha’is in Zahedan
Source: BahaiNews1 26 November at 9:53 Translation by Iran Press Watch According to Baha’i News, four Baha’i residents of Zahedan ‒ Siyawash Rahimi, Baharam Rowhani, Mehrnoosh Ramezani and Hyda Yazdan ‒ have been arrested by…
Murder of a Baha’i in Yazd and Inquiry About the Rights of Baha’is
Source: fa.euronews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch According to the Baha’i International Community, a Baha’i resident of the city of Yazd was killed by two men with a knife on the twenty-sixth of September of…
Arrest of Baha’is in Shiraz
Source: www.iranwire.com Saturday 26 November 2016 By Kian Sabeti, Translation by Iran Press Watch On the evening of Tuesday 22 Nov, agents of the Office of Information of Shiraz, in a coordinated attempt, went to the…
Vetting the Claims of Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi About the Situation of Religious Minorities in Iran
Source: www.iranwire.com Friday, 25 November 2016 Author: Maryam Dadgar Translation by Iran Press Watch In a November 3, 2016 meeting with two delegates from Indonesia’s Ministry of Religious Affairs who were visiting Iran, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi[1]…
The Necessity to Transform Our Encounter with the Plight of Baha’is
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…
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…
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