Editor’s Note: The following report was filed by the Committee of Human Rights Reporters and appears on their English page. It is reproduced below with minor adjustments for grammar, etc. Recent unrest in Iran and…
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Interview with an Iranian Baha’i Student
Editor’s Note: Below is a summary of an interview with Mr. Vahed Kholusi, conducted by Talatum Information Dissemination Centre, in a translation by Iran Press Watch. Mr. Vahed Kholousi is an Iranian Baha’i student deprived…
Short Updates
The following news items were reported on the Persian page of Baha’i World News Service on August 26, 2009. Hamadan (BWNS1): Mrs. Mehrangiz Husayni, a resident of Hamadan, who was arrested last year on October…
Most Shameful Sham Trial of 30 Years
Editor’s Note: Iran has a long and sad history of creating show-trials for the public consumption, though it appears that even the most gullible Iranians are no longer buying these show-trials and seeing through the…
Montazeri Condemns Iranian Regime
Editor’s Note: Yesterday, August 26, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri issued a proclamation in response to a letter dated August 23 by some 293 Iranian intellectuals, journalists, human rights activists and other concerned citizens. Iran Press Watch…
A Positive Development
Earlier today, Thursday, August 27, 2009, BBC Persian reported that Abdolfattah Soltani was freed from incarceration in Evin prison after enduring more than two months of imprisonment, of which 17 days was spent in solitary…
The Forgotten Child
Editor’s Note: For the last 30 years, the Baha’i community of Iran has been deprived of access to institutions of higher education and forced to develop an open university known as BIHE. However, it now appears…
Baha’i Identity in Islamic Iran
Editor’s Note: Alexandra Leavy is a senior at University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Political Science & Modern Middle East Studies. The following essay was initially published in JCSMENA: Penn’s Journal of Cultural Studies of the…
Tarikh Zuhuru’l-Haqq Published Electronically
Iran Press Watch is pleased to learn that the first two volumes of Mirza Asadu’llah Fadil Mazandarani’s magisterial history, titled Tarikh Zuhuru’l-Haqq, have been typed, edited and annotated by Adel Shafipour and published online. Mr.…
Abdu’l-Baha on Baha’i Persecutions in 1903 (part 7)
Editor’s Note: This is the final instalment in Abdu’l-Baha’s remarkable report about the persecution of the Baha’is in Isfahan, Yazd and the surrounding areas. Previous segments are available at: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6…
Abdu’l-Baha on Baha’i Persecutions in 1903 (part 6)
In short, the last information from Yazd, conveyed by the illustrious Siyyid Mahdi Afnan, the offshoot of the Divine Lote Tree, is as follows: The number of the martyrs has reached one hundred and seventy…
There Can’t be a Happy Ending to Our Story
There can’t be a happy ending to our story, if only the human rights of certain segments of society are considered Editor’s Note: Dr. Vahdati is an Iranian-American human rights activist and freelance writer who…
Two Historical Documents
Editor’s Note: In our continual effort to document the mistreatment of the Baha’is of Iran and the regime’s role in bringing about systematic discrimination against the Baha’is, two official documents by Iranian authorities relating to…
Religious Cleansing in Iran
“Every aspect of a non-Muslim is unclean,” proclaimed Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. He explained that non-Muslims rank between “feces” and “the sweat of a camel that has consumed impure food.” Other prominent ayatollahs, including…
Baha’is and Constructive Resilience
Editor’s Note: Following are notes from a talk by Prof. Michael Karlberg given at the Eastside Baha’i Center in Bellevue, Washington, on 27 June 2009, as part of a public program organized in support of…
Justice, not Shame!
Editor’s Note: Dr. Naficy is a well-known Iranian poet, writer, and human rights and political activist. In April of this year, he wrote a brilliant essay, which Iran Press Watch was pleased to share extracts…
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