Christians, Baha’is jailed despite election of the purportedly moderate president Source: freebeacon.com May 13, 2015 5:00 am BY: Daniel Wiser Iranian authorities have escalated their persecution of religious minorities since the election of President Hassan Rouhani despite…
Source: thehill.com May 11, 2015, 10:00 am By S. Rob Sobhani, Ph.D President Obama and his foreign policy team should be commended for trying to solve the difficult problem of Iran’s nuclear program. While…
Source: www.roozonline.com Translation by Iran Press Watch April 23, 2015 “Harassment of the Khanjani family is systematic” Fereshteh Ghazi [email protected] The country home of Jamaleddin Khanjani’s family in Semnan was demolished by Security Forces yesterday. Jamaleddin…
Source: www.radiozamaneh.com Translation by Iran Press Watch 23rd March 2015 By: Kiyan Sabeti Within the last few years, persecution and pressure on the Baha’is of Iran has increased, but it could be said that it reached…
Source: scroll.in Prevented from going to college in Iran, she fled to the US to study, later helping discover a drug that fights cancer. Her country’s policies could come under UN scrutiny on March 19. Uma…
Source: www.bic.org The Situation of Baha’is in Iran Question to the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, interactive dialogue, 28th Session of the Human Rights Council Human Rights 16…
Source: Baha’i World News Service 13 March 2015 GENEVA — Members of minority groups, including Baha’is, continue to face persecution and discrimination in Iran, despite promises by the government to the contrary, according to two…
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com By Maziar Bahari Contributed to The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Feb. 25 2015 Across the country, Canadian schoolchildren are celebrating Freedom to Read week, a public affirmation of freedom of expression through the process…
10 February, 2015 Source: hra-news.org/fa/students/a-15 Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA News – Branch One of the Judiciary Court has denied the request of a group of Baha’i youth to investigate their higher education applications…
Source: iranwire.com/legal-blogs/9743/39/ By: Mehrangiz Kar December 30, 2014 The Friday prayer leader of Rafsanjan, Hojatoleslam Abbas Ramezani-Pour imitates Hitler, but we are silently ignoring it. He has asked, and in fact has incited the lovely…
Source: hra-news.org/fa/religious-minorities/b-483 Translation by Iran Press Watch Date: January 31, 2015 HRANA News Agency – The Ministry of Information in the city of Rasht summons and threatens individuals who have relations with Baha’i citizens. According to…
Source: Sen’s daily The Association of Optometry Manufacturers and Sellers in Tehran held its eighth trade fair, the Optics Exhibition, in Vesal Avenue on December 16 to 19. Eighty businesses took part. Not only were…
Source: Persian Deutsche Welle (PDW) Translation by Iran Press Watch 12/04/14 Abbas Ramazanipour, the Islamic prayer leader of Rafsanjan – a city in southern Iran – in the presence of many officials of that city, declared…
Source: sahamnews.org Translation by Iran Press Watch Published on Wednesday, 26 Nov 2014 During the last few months, economic and social pressure, along with widespread arrests and imprisonment of members of the Baha’i community, have increased.…
Source: hra-news.org/en HRANA News Agency – In a December 2 meeting with provincial officials, the Friday Prayer leader of Rafsanjan, Hojjat-al-Islam Abbas Ramezanipour said that there were a number of “sects” in the province, and because people…
Source: www.internationalpolicydigest.org/2014/11/20/rest-in-peace-iran-destroys-bahai-cemetery/ by Elham Mahdavy November 20, 2014 “Foul, unclean, and rootless sect.” These are the words used by the commander of the government’s Revolutionary Guard in Shiraz, Iran to justify the destruction of much of a Baha’i cemetery in…
