The following exceptional article by Steven was posted on MideastYouth and we thought the readers of BahaiRights would be interested in it.
The Baha’is: A Tiny Weird Group in Your Backyard
The Bahá’ís have been in the news out of Iran and neighboring regions.
I could go on about the governmental angle but my real focus is the [...]

Ihsanullah Kathiri, a Baha’i from Tehran, was executed exactly 26 years ago (27th of June, 1983.)
His crime:
Being a member of the Baha’i Faith.
Please remember and pray for the Baha’is in Iran who remain under this severe threat of torture and execution, and please keep all of the victims who sacrificed their lives in your memory [...]

On this day, 28 years ago, 3 innocent Baha’is were executed for their faith. Hashin Farnush, Farhang Maveddat, and Buzurg Alaviyan.
Funeral of one of the victims, Hashin Farnush, who was imprisoned and tortured for more than 6 months before his execution.

Dozens of innocent Baha’is remain in Iran’s prisons, several kidnapped with their whereabouts unknown. Harassment [...]

During the month of June of 1983, approximately 20 Baha’is were killed in Shiraz. On June 18, 10 of the victims were women, some as young as 16 such as Mona Mahmudnizhad. They were executed by hanging for no other reason but their beliefs; being members of the Baha’i faith, whose members are still severely [...]

For the past 30 years, followers of the Baha’i Faith in Iran have been lynched, falsely imprisoned, vilified and driven out of their homes. Baha’i children have been deprived of their right to an education, adults have been prevented from earning a livelihood and thousands of families had their properties illegally confiscated by the government.
But [...]

2,500 years ago, Cyrus the Great penned down what is regarded as the first declaration for human rights, affirming the right to freedom of worship. But centuries later, what is the situation of Iran’s largest religious minority?

Note: images for this clip were lovingly borrowed from the feature film, “Persepolis.” Marjane Satrapi’s admirable production. She continues [...]

Below is a necessary and informative article that was published on Iranian.com recently. Please read it if you wish to understand what Baha’is are going through within Iran:

Suppression of Baha’is of Iran in 1955
by Dr. Bahram Choubine
Translator’s Introduction
In introducing Ali Dashti’s seminal work, 23 Sal, Dr. Choubine has penned a learned essay that places the [...]

Baha’u’llah was born in Tehran, Iran, on November 12, 1817. His given name was Husayn-‘Ali. His father was Mirza Abbas of the province of Nur, and often referred to as Mirza Buzurg. He was a prominent and wealthy man who had been a minister at the court of Fath-’Alí Shah and subsequently the governor of [...]

There still seems to be many misconceptions as to what a Baha’i really is and what Baha’i teachings revolve around, below we share a video about the Baha’i faith that may make things clear for our non-Baha’i readers:

Kayhan Newspaper, Tehran’s major daily news organ, often publishes articles that are sad examples of yellow journalism and in fact on rare occasions that somebody buys this paper, it must be for its entertainment (read, fictional!) value. In line with its “journalistic policies”, Kayhan is driven by sensationalism, and in order to cause hysteria, [...]