The situation of the Baha’is in Iran and Egypt was presented in a testimony before the Congressional Hearing on June 30, 2006: “Can Religious Pluralism Survive in the Middle East: The Plight of the Minorities”.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) recently expressed concern about the Islamic Republic of Iran’s latest confidential action against its 300,000-member Baha’i community. Continue Reading »
Voice of America posted the following story about a conference on Capitol Hill on protecting religious freedom around the world. U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, a Republican from Pennsylvania, hosted the conference . The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, in his remarks cited the Iranian government’s repression of its Bahai religious minority.
Some 300,000 Baha’is live throughout Iran, making the Baha’i Faith the country’s largest minority religion. The persecution of Baha'is in Iran has been taking place since the religion began there in the mid-nineteenth century. More than 200 Baha’is were killed in Iran between 1978 and 1998, the majority by execution, and thousands more were imprisoned.More