Source: www.bahai.us Resolutions are under consideration in the 116th U.S. Congress, as in past two-year congressional sessions, highlighting and condemning human rights abuses the Iranian government has carried out against the Baha’is in Iran. They are House…
Source: share.america.gov The United States has imposed sanctions on senior Iranian officials responsible for continuing the regime’s long-standing persecution of religious minorities. Iran’s constitution states that it protects the equal rights of “all people of Iran.”…
Source: Department of State Forty years ago this month the Iranian regime arrested nine members of the Baha’i National Spiritual Assembly of Iran, no one has heard from them since. Sadly we must conclude that these…
Source: Bahai International Community BRUSSELS—29 July 2020—The Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, Jean Asselborn, has written(link is external) to Iran’s Foreign Minister, Muhammad Javad Zarif, condemning the recent escalation of the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran, the…
Source: gouvernement.lu Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Jean Asselborn has made the following statement regarding the situation of religious minorities in Iran and in Yemen: “According to press reports, judicial authorities across Iran have reopened…
Source: news.bahai.ca 20 Canadian Parliamentarians from all five political parties and both the House of Commons and the Senate, have signed an open letter calling for Iran to halt its persecution of Baha’is. The letter was…
Source: iranprimer.usip.org Original: June 10, 2020 Iran’s government has continued to imprison, harass and intimidate people based on religious beliefs, according to an annual State Department report on religious freedom released on June 10. At least 90…
Source: en.radiofarda.com The bipartisan United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has singled out Iran and several other countries for criticism in its annual report released on Tuesday, April 28. Referring to the continuing violations of religious…
Source: www.bahai.us For many years, local delegations of Baha’is have developed relationships with members of Congress in collaboration with the U.S. Baha’i Office of Public Affairs (OPA). These relationships serve not only to build national-level support…
Source: www.voanews.com A Baha’i International Community representative who participated in a first-of-its-kind U.S. conference on religious freedom says she urged delegates to press Iran to stop mistreatment of its Baha’i minority. Speaking to VOA Persian…
Source: www.forbes.com Recently, I was asked to consider the situation of the Baha’i religious minority group in Iran. I was warned that the persecution of the Baha’is differs from the cases that I have covered to…
Source: United States Commission on International Religion Freedom IRAN, TIER 1 | USCIRF-RECOMMENDED COUNTRIES OF PARTICULAR CONCERN (CPC) KEY FINDINGS During the past year, the government of Iran engaged in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations…
Source: www.sunshinestatenews.com By KEVIN DERBY This week, members of the Florida congressional delegation called for tougher actions against the Iranian regime. On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., the chairwoman of the House Middle East and North…
Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com By Matt Hadro Washington D.C., Apr 6, 2017 / 04:25 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Religious freedom advocates at the United States capitol on Thursday sent a message of solidarity to all those imprisoned or tortured…
Source: www.analitica.com Translation by Iran Press Watch September 30, 2016 This parliamentarian wrote in a letter to the Iranian ambassador that the Baha’i community is persecuted for being “religiously impure” The Venezuelan parliamentarian, Angel Alvarado, has…
Source: www.bahai.org.au ADELAIDE, 21 AUG 2015 A South Australian senator has spoken out in Federal Parliament against the “longstanding and continued state-sponsored persecution” of members of the Baha’i Faith in Iran. Senator Penny Wright, a member of…
