The Indian news channel NewsX recently aired an extensive report about the Baha’is of Iran. The program discusses the trial of the Baha’i 7 (Yaran), the systematic incitement against Baha’is in children’s books , the denial of education of Baha’is, the scapegoating of Baha’is after the post-election turmoil and the history of persecution of Baha’is [...]

By: Behrouz Setoudeh (Iranian political analysts and commentator) Translation by: M. Rouhani Monstrous spite of corrupt reactionary Muslim religious rulers against Iran’s Baha’i citizens is nothing new; it has a 150 year history, which has to this date resulted in the execution and displacement of tens of thousands of our Iranian countrymen. After the genocide [...]

The following announcement was published recently by Gooya News, an opposition website, and translated by Iran Press Watch. Announcement from: the implementation committee of the revolutionary work force organization of Iran (Rah-e kargar). The court hearing of the Yaran, who are taking care of the affairs of the Baha’i community in the absence of the [...]

The Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) and Fararu.com, a Farsi-language news site, reported about the first hearing in the trial of the seven Baha’i leaders. The first hearing of the trial, which violates the basic principles of a legal due process, was held in the 28th branch of the revolutionary court today. For the first [...]

According to the Baha’i leadership studies, Iraq is home to less than 2,000 Baha’is, spread all across the country. In 1970, Iraq banned the Baha’i Faith, and in 1975 there was a subsequent decision of prohibiting the issuance of identification documents to Baha’is. In 2007 the government abolished the Ministry of Interior’s decision of 1975, [...]

The semi-official Fars News Agency quoted today the Tehran persecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi as saying that the trial of the recently detained Baha’is of Tehran “will be this week in a revolutionary court in Tehran”. He repeated the absurd charges that the Baha’is were behind the mass protests on Ashura (December 27), and that in [...]

As scapegoating of Baha’is continues in state-run media, Iranian authorities announce the charges against the recently arrested Baha’is. The Tehran persecutor, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, was quoted today by IRNA as saying that the Baha’is recently arrested in Tehran were detained for playing a role in organizing protests on Ashura and sending photographs of the protests [...]

BBC Persian reported that nine Baha’i citizens were arrested in Tehran today in the early morning hours. According to a report by the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, 13 Baha’is were arrested, but Diane Ala’i, the Representative to the United Nations for the Bahá’í International Community, said that the community can only confirm the arrest [...]

The Iranian regime continues to incite against members of the Baha’i Faith and blame them for the recent violent protests on the day of Ashura (December 27, 2009). Two representatives of Parliament, Fatemeh Alia and Mohammd Ismail Kowsari both of whom are also members of the influential Commission on Foreign Policy and National Security, become [...]