Niece of arrested Baha’i leader speaks out
June 14th, 2008 by Admin On the 27th of June, 1980, Bahar Tahzib’s father was executed in Iran for no other than being a Baha’i. This wasn’t an isolated incident, but a part of a wide and systemic crackdown on the country’s peaceful Baha’i community in the wake of the Islamic Revolution.
Tahzib’s family finds itself once again reliving the horror, as her uncle Jamaloddin Khanjani was arrested along with six other leaders of the community, with no access to lawyers or due process.
The tragedy of Iran’s obsessive witch-hunt against its largest non-Muslim religious minority is that the Baha’is cherish an abiding love for their country and have remained there – despite intense persecution – because they wish to contribute to its progress and prosperity. Iran is their homeland, and as the cradle of their faith and others, they extol it as a sacred land. Their steadfastness in the face of oppression, and the evidence of their goodwill towards their countrymen is gaining increasing recognition amongst ever greater numbers of Iranians at home and abroad. Muslim campaigners are openly calling for the Iranian government to respect the human rights of its Baha’i population
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Even in far flung corners of the world members of parliament are being approached about our growing concern over human rights violations against the baha’i population in Iran. also questions are being posed such as ‘who are the 320,000 graves being dug on the borders really for’?who does the regime really consider to be the ‘enemies of islam’? is it just co-incidence that the bahai population in iran equals 320,000 approx??we must speak out before its too late.