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Norway’s foreign minister raises concerns about Baha’is in Iran

03:14 pm on Jul 7th 2009

Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere expressed concern for the Baha’i community in Iran, in particular the upcoming trial against seven Baha’i leaders in Tehran, during a meeting with Mohsen Bavafa, Iran’s charge d’affaires in Oslo. The meeting took place on July 7, 2009. Both Washington TV and The Norway Post covered the meeting.

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      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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