Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—2 August 2022—In a cruel escalation, and just two days after previous attacks on Baha’is across Iran, up to 200 Iranian government and local agents sealed off the village of Roshankouh, in Mazandaran province,…
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USCIRF Condemns Destruction of Baha’i Homes in Iran
Source: www.uscirf.gov Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today strongly condemned the destruction of Baha’i homes in the town of Roshan Kuh in Mazandaran Province, Iran. “We strongly condemn Iran’s destruction of…
Homes of Three Baha’i Families Destroyed in Northern Iran
Source: iranwire.com On Monday, August 3, the homes of at least three Baha’i families in northern Iran were torn down without warning by state forces. Police and municipal agents demolished the homes of the Sabetian, Derakhshan and Enayati families in…
From Baha’i Center to Ayatollah Khamenei Mosque
Source: iranintl.com Translation by Iran Press Watch On July 8, 2013, a mosque was opened at the site of the artistic arena in Tehran called “The Ayatollah Khamenei Mosque.” What we are discussing here is neither…
Plot to Destroy Baha’i Homes in Roshankooh in Mazandaran
Source: www.hra-news.org February 22, 2017 Translation by Iran Press Watch HRANA- The majority of the residents of the village of Roshankooh in the province of Mazandaran are Baha’is. This fact has been the cause of discrimination…
Demolition of the Home of a Baha’i Prisoner
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…
Report exposes Iran's media campaign to demonize Baha'is
[BWNS, 21 Oct. 2011] NEW YORK — In a wide-ranging media campaign that has gone largely unnoticed outside of Iran, hatred and discrimination are being systematically stirred up against the country’s 300,000-member Baha’i minority. In a…
Agricultural land in Ivel village in Mazandaran belonging to Baha'is is donated to the Supreme Leader's office. Documents attached.
HARANA News, Thursday 20th Aban 1389 [11 Nov 2010] – In a letter written to [Ayatollah Ahmad] Jannati, Secretary General of the Guardian Council, by ten Muslim residents of Ivel village, reference is made to the…
New wave of attacks on Baha'is of Semnan
September 10th, 2010 / 16 Shahrivar, 1389 . . HRANA News – Following provocative speeches against Baha’is which recently took place in some mosques in Semnan, a new wave of attacks and pressure against the…
Baha’is In Iran Await Justice For Demolished Homes, Graves
(9 Sep 2010 – Radio Free Europe) Ferdosieh Nikoumanesh remembers a time when she and her family couldlive in peace as practicing Baha’is in the Iranian city of Ivel, where more than 50 Baha’i homes…
A Bahá’í's shop front defaced with anti Bahá’í slogans
5 Sep., 2010, Iran Human Rights News Agency – RAHANA Yesterday some seemingly anonymous individuals wrote insulting slogans on the store front of Bahá’í citizen Soroosh Garshasbi in Tankabon.
Cultural Loaders
July 22nd, 2010 / Thursday 8th of July 2010 Homa Houshmand 17/4/1389 When loaders arrived at Ivel village, they were in fact cultural loaders which invaded people’s minds. Why? Why has the Department of Justice issued…
The voices of the women of Ivel…
Just over a month has elapsed from the devastating demolishment of 50 homes of Baha’is in a remote and previously unknown village of Ivel in the northern provence of Mazandaran, Iran. (See in Persian, in…
Attack on Iran’s Baha’i is a Human Rights Outrage
The destruction of 50 Baha’i homes demonstrates the Iranian government’s disregard for its international obligations Written by Barney Leith for the Guardian [“]The governor general is like a physician … if he feels that there…
To be a Baha'i is a crime in the Islamic Republic
Thursday, 17 Tir 1389 [8 July 2010] Report of Rooz on human rights violations in Iran By : Fereshteh Ghazi, [email protected] Baha’i citizens, whose homes in Ivel village in Mazandaran were destroyed by trucks and…
The Baha'is of Ivel: Undaunted spirit
11 July 2010 GENEVA — Following the demolition of Baha’i homes in the Iranian village of Ivel – reported last week – there is another story that must also be told: that of sympathetic villagers…
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