[foreignpolicyi.org] By FPI Senior Policy Analyst Patrick Christy & Policy Director Robert Zarate While U.S. policymakers and lawmakers are focused on reversing Iran’s nuclear threat, Iran continues to pose other serious challenges to America’s national security…
Monthly Archives For June 2014
A Doctor Remembers His Days in Prison With Iran’s Unjustly Persecuted Baha’is
[globalvoicesonline.org] This guest post was written by Dr. Kamiar Alaei to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the imprisonment of the “Yaran”, seven leaders from the Baha’i, a persecuted minority in Iran. The Yaran – five men and two women – are serving 20…
Baha’i Holocaust: Why, How, and To What Extent?
[khodnevis.org] 05 June 2014, by Majid Mohammadi After three decades of atrocities against Baha’is, Khamenei put an official government stamp on this oppression: “All believers should confront the trickeries of the misguided Baha’i sect……
Rouhani’s Human Rights Record Shows No Improvement
[albawaba.com] by Irwin Cotler The Canadian Parliament has just concluded its third Iran Accountability Week, which sounded the alarm on the fourfold threat posed by the Iranian regime – nuclear, terrorist, incitement, and – in particular…
For the Bahá’ís Imprisoned in Iran, Freedom and Human Rights Seem Remote
[newstatesman.com] by Nazila Ghanea Seven Bahá’ís – members of Iran’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, persecuted by the government for decades – have now spent six years in prison for practising their religion. It has been…
Rouhani Is No ‘Moderate’ When It Comes to Human Rights
[jpost.com] A number of human rights abuses in Iran have continued unabated – or have even intensified – under Rouhani’s “moderate” presidency. The Canadian Parliament has just concluded its third Iran Accountability Week, which sounded…
In the Arab World, a New Discourse on Religious Coexistence Takes Root
[news.bahai.org] MANAMA, Bahrain — Throughout the Arab world, a new discussion on how to live peacefully side by side with the followers of all religions has begun to take shape. This discourse is inspired partly by the…
Freed Iranian Rights Lawyer: ‘I’ve a Bad Feeling about the Women I Left Behind’
[theguardian.com] The arrest and jailing of Nasrin Sotoudeh prompted an international outcry. Here she speaks of her ordeal Nasrin Sotoudeh’s seven-year-old son, Nima, wants to go out to play. His mother, the leading Iranian human…
Susan Tebyanian Arrested in Semnan
[hra-news.org] Susan Tebyanian, a Bahai from Semnan, was arrested in her home on the evening of May 31st. Agents from the Ministry of Intelligence searched her home, seized a computer and religious books and images,…
Three New Arrests in Mashhad
[hra-news.org] On June 2, agents from the Ministry of Intelligence raided a Bahai religious meeting in Mashhad, stopped the meeting, and searched the house where it was being held. They seized some religious books and…
Be with Me for a Moment
by Ramin Zibaee [rahesabz.net] Date: 21 May, 2014 We were both born in the same country, the same place and the same motherland. Then why should you have the right to grow and develop in…
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