Source: www.telegraph.co.uk The Baha’i religious minority in Iran is facing its worst crackdown in decades after Tehran carried out a flurry of home demolitions and arrested key leaders. Several hundred Iranian agents descended this week on…
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Update: 200 Iranian Government Agents Destroy Baha’i Homes and Confiscate 20 Hectares of Land
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,…
Iran Targets Its Baha’i Community With Arrests and Home Demolitions
Source: www.nytimes.com By Farnaz Fasihi Representatives of the religious minority said that the crackdown was the latest chapter in a long history of persecution. The authorities accused those detained of being spies with links to Israel.…
Iran Cracks Down on Baha’i Faith Members Over Spying Charges – Why Are the Baha’i Linked to Israel?
Source: www.timesnownews.com As tensions grow between Iran and Israel, the Islamic Government steps up its persecution of the Baha’i faith over alleged spying charges. But the community’s history with Israel goes back a long time. Iranian…
Australian Baha’is Condemn Iran’s ‘Relentless Persecution’ of Religious Minority
Source: www.sbs.com.au Fearing for their lives, Pantea Motearefi and her family fled Iran in 1993. But 26 years later, Baha’is in Iran are still subjected to fierce religious persecution. Pantea Motearefi and her family were fast…
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…
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…
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