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	<title>Persecution of Bahá&#039;ís in Iran &#187; Bahai</title>
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		<title>Detailed Kansas City Public Radio Report on Religious Freedom for Baha&#8217;is in Iran</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/12/29/detailed-kansas-city-public-radio-report-on-religious-freedom-for-bahais-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[MEDIA COVERAGE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baha'i Faith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a group that prides itself on tolerance, Baha’is have drawn a lot of intolerance, especially in Iran, where the religion originated. Ever since Baha’i began, its followers have come under attack by fundamentalist Muslims. An early incarnation of Baha’is, the Babis, saw 20,000 of their members killed in the mid-19th century, and Baha’is founder, Baha’u’llah, spent most of his life either in prison or in exile.]]></description>
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		<title>Times Higher Education article: &#8220;Baha&#8217;is denied access to state universities face a new threat to their institute&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/12/22/times-higher-education-article-bahais-denied-access-to-state-universities-face-a-new-threat-to-their-institute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[DENIAL OF EDUCATION]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baha'i Institute for Higher Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once, during Ramadan in the mid-1990s, Erfan Sabeti was on his way to an all-day genetics class at the Baha'i Institute for Higher Education in Tehran.]]></description>
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		<title>NYC Bar Association hosts panel discussion on minorities in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/11/17/nyc-bar-association-hosts-panel-discussion-on-minorities-in-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[NEWS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Vance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bahai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bahais in iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center for Law and Religion at St. John's University School of Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Representatives of Coptic, Kurdish, Baha’i and Jewish communities discussed the plight of religious and ethnic minorities in the Middle East, during a panel hosted by the New York City Bar Association on Nov. 8 at their Manhattan headquarters.]]></description>
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		<title>The Wall Street Journal op-ed: Iran&#8217;s Outcast Religion</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/10/28/the-wall-street-journal-op-ed-irans-outcast-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/10/28/the-wall-street-journal-op-ed-irans-outcast-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abdolfattah Soltani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ayatollah Ali Khamenei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baha'i Institute for Higher Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Firuz Kazemzadeh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Golgaypani memorandum]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In some 40 years as a university professor, I have been privileged to teach students who went on to serve their people as senators, ambassadors, prominent scholars and even U.S. president. None of this would have been possible had I lived in my family's homeland of Iran. As a member of the Bahai faith, I would have been barred from teaching freely—and I might even have been imprisoned, as seven Bahai educators now are.]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. names Iran &#8220;Country of Particular Concern&#8221; for religious repression; Cites example of Baha&#8217;i minority</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/09/15/u-s-names-iran-country-of-particular-concern-for-religious-repression-cites-example-of-bahai-minority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PUBLIC STATEMENTS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[REPORTS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baha'i Institute for Higher Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights and Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael H. Posner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Department's Annual Report to Congress on International Religious Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has named Iran among eight &#8220;Countries of Particular Concern&#8221; in relation to its repression of religious minorities. At the launch of the State Department&#8217;s Annual Report to Congress on International Religious Freedom, Secretary Clinton highlighted those countries whose governments engage in – or tolerate – &#8220;particularly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VOA Editorial: More Religious Persecution In Iran</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/08/18/voa-editorial-more-religious-persecution-in-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/08/18/voa-editorial-more-religious-persecution-in-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oea</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gonabadi dervishes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human-rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shiite clerics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Victoria Nuland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;While Iran&#8217;s leaders hypocritally claim to promote tolerance, they continue to detain, imprison, harass, and abuse those who simply wish to worship the faith of their choosing.&#8221; &#8212; U.S. Department of State spokeswoman Victoria Nuland Read entire editorial here. Excerpt Earlier this month, Iranian authorities reportedly refused to allow a Baha&#8217;i family to bury a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baha&#8217;i educational programme target of raids in 30 homes in Iran; so far 14 arrested in four cities</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/05/22/bahai-educational-programme-target-of-raids-in-iran-so-far-30-arrested-in-a-least-four-cities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 02:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oea</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://iran.bahai.us/?p=4146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[* This article has been updated to reflect new information on the number of arrests in connection with the BIHE raids. GENEVA — A coordinated series of raids have been carried out on the homes of several Iranian Baha&#8217;is, active in a community initiative to provide a higher education program for young members who are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Touching Mother&#8217;s Day story in The New York Times: &#8220;A Bahai&#8217;s Persecution, and a Daughter&#8217;s Deliverance&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/05/08/touching-mothers-day-story-in-the-new-york-times-a-bahais-persecution-and-a-daughters-deliverance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 20:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Columnist Samuel G. Freedman&#8216;s &#8220;On Religion&#8221; article in The New York Times on May 7 coincided with Mother&#8217;s Day weekend. So he decided to write about a woman&#8217;s courage in facing the severe hardships she endured for her daughter and her faith. HOUSTON — On a blustery night the week before Mother’s Day, a woman [...]]]></description>
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