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Rep. Mark Kirk includes Baha’is in call for human rights in Iran

02:12 pm on Nov 4th 2009

U.S. Representative Mark Kirk mentioned the Baha’is of Iran during remarks at the U.S. Institute of Peace on November 4. After reading the names of 10 Iranian Baha’is currently imprisoned for their beliefs, Rep. Kirk said,

I say their names out loud today because no matter how hard the Iranian regime tries to silence these voices, the dictators cannot succeed as long as freedom-loving people around the world plead their case.

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Rep. Mark Kirk speaking at the U.S. Institute of Peace on Nov. 4, 2009
Photo credit: Baha’is of the U.S.

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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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