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	<title>Persecution of Bahá&#039;ís in Iran &#187; Iran</title>
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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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		<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>VIDEO: U.S. leaders, artists and activists defend Iran&#8217;s seven imprisoned Baha&#8217;i leaders</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/11/21/video-yaran-iran-bahai-leaders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video: On May 12, 2011, Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois hosted a reception to raise awareness about the seven Baha'i leaders imprisoned in Iran. Actress Eva LaRue is among the notable figures offering their support. Also featured are U.S. Representative from New York, Michael Grimm; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Kathleen Fitzpatrick; Secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the U.S. Kenneth E. Bowers; and brother of one of the imprisoned leaders, Iraj Kamalabadi.]]></description>
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		<title>UN strongly condemns Iran&#8217;s human rights violations; European Parliament joins global outcry</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/11/21/un-resolution-iran-human-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/11/21/un-resolution-iran-human-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UN General Assembly Third Committee today voted in favor of a resolution that condemned Iran for its “serious ongoing and recurring human rights violations.” The resolution – which is expected to be confirmed by the full Assembly in December – also requests that the UN Secretary General issue a report on human rights in Iran again next year.]]></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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		<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>Statement of Baha&#8217;i International Community calls for release of Christian pastor facing death sentence in Iran</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/10/25/bahai-international-community-calls-for-release-of-christian-pastor-facing-death-sentence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is much to be done for humanity to be alerted to what is going on inside Iran and to be awakened to the appalling memory of what can occur when we fail to act against state-sponsored campaigns of hatred.]]></description>
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		<title>Prominent U.S. professors sign global letter, denounce restrictions on freedom of education in Iran</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/10/10/prominent-u-s-professors-sign-global-letter-denounce-restrictions-on-freedom-of-education-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attacks such as these, against the rights of citizens to organize and be educated in freedom, can no longer be tolerated. We call upon the Iranian government not only to cease its persecution of Bahá’ís, but to provide, and promote, education for all.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Electric&#8217; program on Iran&#8217;s struggle for human rights sponsored by Baha&#8217;is in Southern California</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/09/28/electric-program-on-irans-struggle-for-human-rights-sponsored-by-bahais-in-southern-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood star Rainn Wilson and actress/activist Shiva Rose hosted an audience of 1,300 at the Kavli Theatre in Thousand Oaks, CA, in mid-September for an evening dedicated to human rights in Iran. The program combined arts, panel discussions and a keynote address by Iranian-born journalist and film-maker Maziar Bahari who recently published a book about his incarceration in Iran in 2009. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trials underway in Iran for Baha&#8217;i educators; &#8216;Education Under Fire&#8217; campaign launches with open letter from Nobel laureates</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/09/26/bihe-trials-coincide-with-launch-of-education-under-fire-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The release of an open letter from two Nobel Peace Prize winners regarding the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education coincided with the first round of trials for imprisoned staff members of the beleaugured Institute. Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta called for an end to education discrimination in Iran in a [...]]]></description>
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