Persecution of Baha’is in Iran

Washington, 18 November (IranVNC) - A Canada-sponsored United Nations resolution denouncing the human rights situation in Iran could deprive that country of chances for “fair” ties with the Islamic Republic, a source from Iran’s Foreign Ministry told the official IRNA news agency in an interview today.

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A professor who teaches English literature at Shaheed Beheshti University posted this account about the expulsion of his Baha’i students at www.Fallosafah.org, a site dedicated to “the Journals of M.S. Hanaee Kashani”.  You can access the account in Persian here, and a translation here.

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The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the U.S. has just launched a video contest to raise awareness about the plight of Baha’is in Iran trying to gain access to higher education. The contest is open to everyone and you can learn more about it by visiting http://www.youtube.com/group/bahaistudentsiran

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Human Rights Activists of Iran has published a short report on the recent desecration of the Baha’i cemetery in Darzicola: http://hiranian.org/Archive_87/1140.html. You can access a translation here

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The following piece was published in the opinion section of the Ohlone, CA, community college paper: Education denied to the Baha’i minority in Iran

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The following opinion piece was published in Virginia’s James Madison University’s The Breeze: Religious Persecution Persists in Iran

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An Iranian inspector who examined the 2006 arrests of a group of young Baha’is in Shiraz, Iran, filed a confidential report dated June 2008 confirming what Baha’is have said all along: that their activities were strictly humanitarian in nature and did not involve the “illegal” teaching of the Baha’i Faith. Continue Reading »

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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his concern over human rights violations in Iran against Baha’is, other minorities, women and juveniles.  Read more

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