Yet Another Baha’i Cemetery Desecrated in Iran

Reporters and Human Rights Activists in Iran (RAHNA) reported today about the desecration by an unidentified group of the Baha’i cemetery in Damavand.

According to the report, an unidentified group entered the cemetery on April 24th, and using heavy machinery overturned every gravestone in the cemetery. The cemetery was completely leveled. Complaints to authorities have resulted in nothing. The cemetery was established in 2005 following the illegal confiscation of the lots of the previous two cemeteries of Damavand by the Ministry of Intelligence.

Desecration of Baha’i cemeteries has been a long-held unofficial policy of the Iranian regime. In 2009, the Baha’i cemeteries in Semnan, Najafabad and Vilashahr, Abadan and Khorramshahr and Sangsar were desecrated. The destruction of cemeteries has been used by the Iranian regime to prevent Baha’is from burying their dead in their towns, in contradiction to Baha’i teachings. The fact that the destruction operations are usually carried out using heavy machinery means that the people behind the attacks are not just random anti-Baha’i vigilantes. The fact that no charges are ever pressed against those criminals signals to them that the regime supports their abhorrent actions.

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Desecration, Iran

wellental

3 May, 2010

Praise and salutation to you dear ones, who keep up the standard of true spirituality and religiosity by expressing concern for the oppressed ones and making public the injustice and cruelty done to the Baha’is in Iran. Please keep on!

Vahid

3 May, 2010

How fearful the Mullahs must be from this wonderful religion? A religion that teaches nothing, but love!

O SON OF SPIRIT!
The best beloved of all things in My sight is Justice; turn not away therefrom if thou desirest Me, and neglect it not that I may confide in thee. By its aid thou shalt see with thine own eyes and not through the eyes of others, and shalt know of thine own knowledge and not through the knowledge of thy neighbor. Ponder this in thy heart; how it behooveth thee to be. Verily justice is My gift to thee and the sign of My loving-kindness. Set it then before thine eyes.
-Baha’u'llah

Filippo Angileri

6 May, 2010

Comment
Sono molto indignato per queste azioni di cui si macchia gente dell’Iran, paese molto stimato da tutti i baha’i del mondo.Invito gli Iraniani a non commettere più queste atrocità, nel nome del Corano del Profeta Muhammad.