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	<title>Persecution of Bahá&#039;ís in Iran &#187; Islamic-Republic-of-Iran</title>
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		<title>NEW VIDEO released in Angels of Iran documentary series: &#8220;Faith and Sacrifice: The Baha&#8217;is in Iran&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2012/01/24/new-video-released-in-angels-of-iran-documentary-series-faith-and-sacrifice-the-bahais-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International, United4Iran, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Education Under Fire, The Boroumand Foundation, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, the Baha’i national communities of the United States and Canada, and other organizations will be encouraging their supporters to spread these new Angels of Iran videos far and wide through social media.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Conspiracy&#8221; charges leveled against Bahai educators with looming deadline to release or formally charge</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/07/28/conspiracy-charges-leveled-against-bahai-educators-with-looming-deadline-to-release-or-formally-charge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eleven Baha’is charged with “conspiracy against national security” for operating an institute for higher education

Iranian authorities faced a deadline two months after the May 21st raids carried out on more than thirty Baha’i homes* connected to the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education. Under Iranian law, the authorities had to either formally charge defendants or set the prisoners free.

The Baha'i International Community just learned that charges have been laid and 11 of the 19 individuals originally detained in the raids will continue to be held in detention*. The remaining 8 individuals were released over time since the raids.]]></description>
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		<title>Cornel West on the persecution of Baha&#8217;is in Iran</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/04/25/cornel-west-on-the-persecution-of-bahais-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://iran.bahai.us/?p=3899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Cornel West is a philosopher and Princeton professor of African American Studies and Religion and a staunch defender of rights and freedoms for all people. He learned about the Baha’i Faith through his race unity work, befriending Baha’is such as jazz maestro Dizzy Gillespie. Professor West recently welcomed a relative of an imprisoned Iranian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama mentions Iranian Baha&#8217;is as number sitting behind bars rises to almost 80</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2011/03/22/update-arrests-of-bahais-as-religious-persecution-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The count of Iranian Baha&#8217;is currently in prison because of their religion has climbed in recent weeks to 79, according to an update from the Baha&#8217;i World News Service released on March 20, up from 69 prisoners recorded in February. On the same day, U.S. President Barack Obama issued his annual Naw Ruz greeting to the people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roxana Saberi and USCIRF call for release of Iranian Baha&#8217;is</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2009/07/09/roxana-saberi-and-uscirf-call-for-release-of-iranian-baha%e2%80%99is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, in response to a letter written by journalist Roxana Saberi, today issued a statement demanding the release of seven Baha&#8217;i leaders who are said to face trial July 11, 2009. Saberi was imprisoned in Tehran&#8217;s Evin prison, where the Baha&#8217;is are currently being held, for nearly four months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call by academics to stop the persecution of the Baha&#8217;is in Iran</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2009/03/11/call-by-academics-to-stop-the-persecution-of-the-bahais-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an open letter dated March 9, 2009, scholars and academic specialists in the fields of Middle Eastern and Iranian studies call on the Islamic Republic of Iran to put an end to human rights abuses against Baha’is in Iran. A Call to Stop the Persecution of Baha’is in the Islamic Republic of Iran We, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baha&#8217;i schoolchildren in Iran increasingly harassed and abused by school authorities</title>
		<link>http://iran.bahai.us/2007/04/05/bahai-schoolchildren-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK April 5, 2007 Baha&#8217;i students in primary and secondary schools throughout Iran are increasingly being harassed, vilified, and held up to abuse, according to recent reports from inside the country. During a 30-day period from mid-January to mid-February, some 150 incidents of insults, mistreatment, and even physical violence by school authorities against Baha&#8217;i [...]]]></description>
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