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Khatami asked about Iran’s treatment of Baha’is during visit to Australia

10:05 am on Mar 24th 2009

The former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami addressed an audience in Canberra, Australia on March 24. As he turned to the audience for questions, he was asked about Iran’s treatment of the Baha’is.

The Brisbane Times posted the two following articles from the event:

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  • About the Persecution

    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
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