Source: HRANA, http://goo.gl/5y8K90 Translation by Iran Press Watch (Regarding the issues of educational and economic discrimination, and even the right of burial) Saturday June 14, 2014 I am a Baha’i citizen residing in Tabriz…
Essays
"In Their Place": Marking and Unmarking Shi'ism in Pahlavi Iran.
Dr. Aaron Vahid Sealy, in his Ph.D. thesis, includes the case of the Baha’is in Iran. With close to 400 references to the Baha’i Faith and the Baha’is in Iran, Dr. Sealy covers many cultural,…
Iran’s Other War
December 9, 2010 – by Michael J. Totten Iran’s most repressed religious minority is also its largest. Members of the community are routinely imprisoned, frequently executed, banned from universities, and ruthlessly repressed economically. Tens of…
Persecuting Baha'is on the basis of the "Cult Scenario"
[Mr. Saburi is a diligent essayist; with simple language he reveals the current policy of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to portray the Baha’i Faith and Baha’is in Iran as members of…
The Baha’i Community, Human Rights, and the Construction of a New Iranian Identity A Lecture by Dr. Akhavan in Chicago
[Editor: Dr. Payam Akhavan is a Founder and Board Member of Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre: Payam Akhavan, LL.B., LL.M, S.J.D. (Professor, McGill University Faculty of Law): Payam Akhavan is Professor of International Law at McGill…
The Trial of the Yaran under the Iranian “Citizens’ Rights” and “Legal Procedures for Revolutionary Courts” Standards
The Trial of the Yaran under the Iranian “Citizens’ Rights” and “Legal Procedures for Revolutionary Courts” Standards [Editor’s Note: Iran Press Watch is presenting a new work in a series of analytical articles around the…
A Life of Repression
Anti-Americanism, open hostility towards Israel, a legal system that does not grant men and women equal rights, and a doctrine that calls itself the “rule of the supreme legal scholar” have determined the official philosophy…
Shohreh Aghdashloo’s Presentation
Over 1400 concerned citizens came together on September 12, 2009, in Washington DC over the issue of human rights in Iran and the plight of persecuted Baha’i community of that land, (see IPW). One of the…
Stop Persecuting the Baha'is of Iran: A Personal Plea
Editor’s Note: The following is a Letter to the Editor that Iran Press Watch has received from a concerned reader. Many readers may have experienced situations similar to those which are now occurring to the…
Baha’is Hope for Change in Perspective of their Faith
By Srbui Karapetian For third-year bioengineering student Sattar Khoshkhoo, vice chair of the Baha’i Association, a student group at UCLA, the pursuit of higher education has come at a tremendous cost: departing from Iran, his…
Lawyer: Iran has no evidence against Baha'i prisoners
(CNN) — Iran should release seven Baha’i prisoners accused of espionage because it does not have any evidence against them, their lawyer Shirin Ebadi told CNN on Saturday. “In the files, in the case basically,…
Profiles of the Yaran
In anticipation of the upcoming trial of the seven former leaders of the Baha’i community of Iran, known as the Yaran, meaning friends, Iran Press Watch is pleased to publish the following short biographical profiles…
An Iranian Cleric Protests Trial of Yaran (part 2)
Editor’s Note: For those interested in the original of this seminal essay, please consult the Persian page of Iran Press Watch (here). In response to the repeated questions and enquiries of his followers as to…
In Support of the Baha’is of Iran
Editor’s Note: Prof Abbas Milani is Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford, where he is the co-director of the Iran Democracy Project. Following if the text of Dr. Abbas Milani’s speech at the Herbst Theater…
An Iranian Cleric Protests Trial of Yaran (part 1)
Editor’s Note: Hojjatoleslam Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari (b.1950) is an Iranian cleric, researcher, journalist and reformist. He has been described as “an active supporter of the revolution” who became “an outspoken and influential critic of the…
Iran: Religious Minority Groups
Approximately 89% of Iranians are Shia Muslims.[13] The rest, including Baha’i, Christian, Zoroastrian, Sunni Muslim, and Jewish communities, constitute around 11%. Despite their popularity in the country, the total membership of Sufi groups in the…
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