[BBC Persian] Mohammad Javad Larijani*, the secretary-general of the Iranian High Council for Human Rights, has rejected “any form of discrimination and violation of rights, due to being a Baha’i” in Iran, and said that people…
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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…
First Nationwide Forum on the Right to Education
(Tehran – HRA) Following the diligent work of the Committee on the Right to Education for the Bahá’ís which operates under the umbrella of the Human Rights Activists Association in Iran, two simultaneous forums were held…
Interview with an Iranian Baha'i Student
Last winter semester (2007/08) 1000 Baha’i students had passed their entrance exams for university. 800 of them were denied entrance because of “incomplete files”. Sholeh is one of them. We hear her story… What made…
Education: A Historical Commitment of the Baha'is of Iran
While exclusion from education is a grievous wrong in any circumstances, the situation for Iranian Baha’is is compounded by the degree to which the sacred writings of the Baha’i Faith stress the primary importance of…
Bahai's Living in Iran with No Human Rights
By Wahied Wahdat-Hagh, Die Welt, 12-Dec-2008 Editor’s note: A german translation of this article can be found at http://europeandemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13278&catid=4&Itemid=22 Universal human rights are being trampled underfoot in the Islamic “Republic” of Iran. In particular, the…
A Book Review: The Baha’is of Iran
Editor’s note: The following is a book review by Oliver Scharbrodt, with the citation: Oliver Scharbrodt (2008); Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Seena B. Fazel; The Baha’is of Iran: Socio-Historical Studies, London and New York: Routledge,…
Six American University Presidents Travel to Iran
By Davood N. Rahni, Ph.D. As a patriotic American with proud Persian heritage, I have followed with much exhilaration the recent travel to Iran by the presidents of the six national American universities. In an…
Meeting of the Council in Defense of the Right to Education with Political and Social Activists
At 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, a group of students expelled from universities or otherwise discriminated against were represented by the Council in Defense of the Right to Education and met with a number of political…
Open Letter by Prominent Figures
Prominent figures from the worlds of education, law, human rights, religion and journalism have today published an open letter expressing grave concern at the Iranian government’s denial of access to education to members of the…
Baha’i Students’ Open Letter on Student Day
In the charged atmosphere after the CIA-supported military coup of August 1953 which brought Muhammad-Reza Pahlavi back to the throne and suppressed a popular uprising in support of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq, university students in Iran…
Iranian Baha'i told "Your Education has been Terminated"
by Barney Leith Like thousands of other hopeful young Iranians Ameed Saadat sat Iran’s 2008 national university entrance examination. He passed was accepted to study hotel management at Goldasht College in Kelardasht, Mazandaran, and began…
A Professor’s Account of the Expulsion of His Baha’i Students
[Professor Saeed Hanaee Kashani teaches English literature at Shaheed Beheshti University.] Last Monday, I was teaching a class at 8 o’clock in the morning. My students and I were reading aloud a text in English.…
Expelled for Being a Baha'i – The Case of Mona Muhabbati
[In continuing the series of personal descriptions of Baha’i students who have been expelled from their institutions of higher education, the prestigious organization Human Rights Activists of Iran published the following account on Wednesday, 22…
The Case of Arash Shahsavandi: Expelled from University for Being Baha'i
[On Monday, 13 October 2008, the well-regarded organization “Human Rights Activists of Iran” published the following account by Arash Shahsavandi, a Baha’i student expelled from his university on account of his religion: http://www.hrairan.com/Archive_87/1114.html. The report…
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