Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti Health workers are a critical part of any society and, in Iran, hundreds of Iranian Baha’i doctors and scientists contributed to the country’s development. But today there are almost no Iranian…
Persecution of Baha’is
Iran: Possible Crimes Against Humanity, Absence of Accountability – Top Rights Expert
Source: www.indiablooms.com New York: “The most serious human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran over the past four decades” have been committed since the death in police custody of Jina Mahsa Amini on…
Iran’s Raisi: A 1980s Killer of Baha’is
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti President Ebrahim Raisi, a longtime establishment figure in the Islamic Republic who has been Iran’s president since August 2021, was before his election a senior judiciary official for more than 40 years.…
The Islamic Republic Is on the Path to Committing a Mass Atrocity. The World Should Pay Attention.
Source: www.atlanticcouncil.org Anthony Vance According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), since Mahsa Jina Amini was killed by the so-called morality police in September 2022, demonstrations have occurred in at least 163 cities and at 144 universities in…
Iranian Government Detains Dozens More Baha’is During National Crisis
Source: www.bic.org GENEVA—18 November 2022—Twenty-nine Baha’is in Iran have been arrested since September, the latest incidents in a crackdown that began in late July, even as the Iranian government faces unprecedented scrutiny around the world over…
Religious Minority Persecuted in Iran Targeted With Sophisticated Android Spyware
Source: www.securityweek.com Ionut Arghire Kaspersky is warning of a previously unknown espionage campaign targeting the Persian-speaking religious minority Bahaʼi with Android spyware. As part of the campaign, victims were lured to a VPN application claiming to…
Baha’is Arrested for Instigating “Sedition” and Protests
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti The Baha’i faith, one of the world’s youngest religions, was founded in Iran in the nineteenth century, but its followers have long faced persecution in the country, especially since the establishment of…
Persecution in Iran: the Baha’i Faith and False Charges of Heresy
Source: www.algemeiner.com By Chaim Lax For the past month, there has been an uptick in news stories about members of the Baha’i faith in Iran being arrested on a number of trumped-up charges, including spying for…
Targets of Opportunity: Iran’s Bahá’í Community Faces New Repression | Opinion
Source: www.newsweek.com KNOX THAMES , FORMER STATE DEPARTMENT SPECIAL ADVISOR FOR RELIGIOUS MINORITIES As negations between Iran and global powers crescendo for a revised nuclear deal, Iran’s peaceful and long-suffering Bahá’í community has again become the target of Iranian…
Iran’s Government Cracks Down on Bahá’ís; 200 Incidents Reported
Source: kayhanlife.com By Natasha Phillips The Iranian government cracked down on the Baha’i religious minority over a three-week period starting on July 31. There were 200 reported incidents, according to the Bahá’í International Community (BIC), the official voice…
Iran Arrests Baha’i Members; Advocates Demand Their Release
Source: www.arabnews.com The Baha’i demanded their release and called their arrests part of a long pattern of persecution by Iran’s Shiite theocracy Iran offered no evidence to support the allegations of the Baha’i doing anything…
Faith: Hatred Inflicted on Baha’is in Iran Needs Our Attention
Source: www.statesman.com By Ajit Giani Special to the American-Statesman History is a stark reminder that much evil is perpetrated in darkness when we either don’t know or don’t care to know about the challenges and difficulties…
Iran Accused of Propaganda Ploy to Incriminate Baha’i Religious Minority
Source: www.europeantimes.news GENEVA—19 August 2022 The Baha’i International Community has received news of a shocking and outrageous new propaganda ploy to incriminate the Baha’is in Iran through a staged video production filmed in a kindergarten. On…
Iran’s Persecution of Bahá’ís Must End
Source: www.thestatesman.com The clear objective is to strangulate and exterminate identified people; full details of the specific nature of the acts of violence are available in the public domain. A. K. MERCHANT Religiously motivated violence…
The Truth Behind Iranian State TV’s Dramatic Report on ‘Baha’i Kindergartens’
Source: iranwire.com Kian Sabeti On August 19, the Baha’i International Community (BIC) issued a statement entitled “Iran’s Brazen Propaganda Ploy to Incriminate Baha’is Through Fake Videos and Hate Speech”. In it, the BIC accused the Iranian government of…
Iran: Intensified Assault on Iran’s Baha’i Minority
Source: www.amnesty.org Iran’s persecuted Baha’i minority are suffering escalated attacks on their human rights. Since 31 July 2022, the authorities have raided dozens of Baha’i houses, detained at least 30 people, and subjected many more to…
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