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Iran: Religious Minority Groups

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Approximately 89% of Iranians are Shia Muslims.[13]  The rest, including Baha’i, Christian, Zoroastrian, Sunni Muslim, and Jewish communities, constitute around 11%.  Despite their popularity in the country, the total membership of Sufi groups in the…

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Iran Open Letter

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Editor’s Note:  The following Open Letter was published in August 3, 2009, issue of the New York Times, in a full-page. To Shirin Ebadi and to All the dissidents — the brave men and women…

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Baha'is on Trial?

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In a report filed from Cairo on Wednesday, July 29, the Associated Press (AP) writer Lee Keath states: The state news agency IRNA said Wednesday that indictments had been issued against “around 20” detainees involved in “planning…

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Fariba Kamalabadi

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Mrs. Kamalabadi is one of the seven former Baha’i leaders who continues to languish in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison on false and fabricated charges.  She was arrested in May 2008.  Several items of interest related…

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