Confidential Iran memo exposes policy to deny Baha’i students university education

The Baha’i World News Service have just published the following report:

The Baha’i International Community has received a copy of a confidential 2006 letter from Iran’s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology instructing Iranian universities to expel any student who is discovered to be a Baha’i.

The letter refutes recent statements by Iranian officials, who say Baha’i students in Iran face no discrimination – despite the fact that more than half of the Baha’i university students enrolled last autumn were gradually expelled over the course of the 2006-2007 academic year.

This letter from a government ministry to 81 Iranian universities instructs them to expel Baha’i students.

In early March, for example, newspapers carried a story by the Reuters news agency reporting that some 70 Baha’i students had been expelled from universities in Iran since autumn 2006.

In the Reuters story, however, an anonymous spokesperson for the Iranian Mission to the United Nations was quoted as saying in reply: “No one in Iran because of their religion has been expelled from studying.”

Read the full article here.

There is too much awareness and too much proof of the fact that Iranian Baha’is suffer from horrific discrimination which the government repeatedly attempts to deny. Another article posted on Iranian.com reveals the following by a Baha’i student (another excerpt of this was previously posted here):

Since 1979, the government of Iran has systematically sought to deprive its largest religious minority of the right to a full education. Specifically, the Islamic Republic of Iran has for more than 25 years blocked the 300,000-member Bahai community from higher education, refusing young Bahais entry into university and college.

Eventually, in response to an international outcry over this oppressive behavior, the government officially announced in late 2005 that it would drop the declaration of religious affiliation on the application for the national university entrance examination. Consequently, the Bahai students could take the examination in 2004 and 2005.Yet, later in the admission procedure, Bahai youth were passed over and not accepted.

In 2006, for the first time in 29 years, more than 200 Bahai students could enter national universities. However, from the very beginning of the school year, gradually most of these students were expelled according to a previously planned strategy.

Read full article here.

Iran’s systematic abuse of Baha’is is unjust and unacceptable, we must all unite in condemnation of this human rights violation.

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Baha'i Faith, Human Rights, Iran

allyson rowen taylor

27 August, 2007

It is time for a student revolution in Iran. It is time that all human rights are respected, and that the oppressive regime of the Ayatollahs is part of past history, and a new democracy will rise. The lack of women’s rights, gay rights, Baha’i’s, Jews, Christian rights in Iran should now take front row and become the new reason for a movement and uprising of the youth.

Dr. Khalil A. Khavari

27 August, 2007

This is another instance of the ruling ayatollahs lying blatantly and shamelessly. They assure the world that Baha’is and Baha’i students are not subjected to discrimination, while covertly issuing directives to the Iranian institutions of higher learning to expel any and all Baha’i students. These ayatollahs are abominations since they lack the bedrock of all human virtues – truthfulness. Baha’u’llah asserts, “Truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues.” Little wonder that the international community greatly distrusts anything that these habitual frauds proclaim. Furthermore, these religious oppressors should be reminded of the old Islamic saw, “A rule of ‘kufr’ (blasphemy) may endure, but not that of injustice.” The Islamic Republic of Iran is a rule of lies and injustice. Women, minorities, and just about any all segments of the diverse Iranian society are treated in ways that greatly sully the reputation of Islam.

Rancher

28 August, 2007

Pretty much the same situation every Iranian suffers when the stray from the Mullah’s path for salvation. Where this will really bite the Mullahs is the rampant arrests of everyone from women who are deemed to be to immodest to kids arrested for attending a rock concert. That’s a broad faction of the populace being affected. What I want to know is if American interference will push the pot past boiling or instead allow the Mullahs to garner patriotic fervor that will strengthen the regime in the face of American meddling. We have been waiting a long time for the Iranian youth to get rid of the Mullahs but I can’t help but remember that the Castro regime was very thankful for the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

Eduardo

1 September, 2007

Every behavor has a propose.

What is the propose of neglecting civil rights to others?

Civil Rights is juridic existence.

Without Civil Rights we don’t existe juridicly and without this, life is like a forced coma, almost none existence or nearlly death.

What is the propose of neglecting civil existence or juridic existence?

Is Death.

Neglecting Civil Rights is compromazing the existence of others.

With what right do we consider ourselfs capable of deciding about the existence of others?

Know for Truth that There is Only One God The Just, The Sacred.

When we act as we were God, and neglecting or compromazing the existence of others, which is only by Right an atribution of God, as it was God Who Gave us life and existence, by definition God is The Creator, The Giver of Existence, we are puting us in the position of God, and that we have not the right to do, we are just creatures, we were created, we don’t give existence, so we can not take it, or limite it, unless that person is a danger to other or others, and need to be corrected, which is not the case of the bahá’ís, 7 million in the World, living in everycountry, that have already proved that are constructive, cooperative, helpers, and not a danger for anyone, even when soffering in the worst and intolerable conditions of injustice and intolerance.

True Islam is The Defensor of Tolerance and Justice not of Death or almost Death that is withdraw of human basic rights for existence which is civil rights.

noorollah rouhi

25 September, 2007

Bahai’s were mentioned in iran as “zionism spies” and they declared that which country and which government in all human world permits the spies live in their country as other common citizens!
I as an iranian bahai , do not know, am I spy????
Please help me to answer my iranian muslem friends.