Persecution of Bahá'ís in Iran

Stephen Magagnini of The Sacramento Bee recently published two articles about the persecution of the Baha’i religious minority in Iran, including seven Baha’i leaders currently awaiting trial.

From today’s story:

Dr. Abbas Milani, director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said Iran’s Islamic regime “has been obsessive about persecuting them.”Baha’is, he said, “are a peaceful religion and try to stay out of politics as much as possible.”

Their fear of execution is real, Milani said.

Read the full articles:

• Exiled Iranian Baha’i members pay tribute to executed friends
  By Stephen Magagnini, The Sacramento Bee, July 31, 2009
• Local Baha’i to rally against Iranian persecution
  By Stephen Magagnini, The Sacramento Bee, July 29, 2009

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