The following are a photos from the Abadan and Khoramshahr cemetery. It was raided during Azar 1388 (early December 2009) and many graves and walls were destroyed.

For more photos see in the Iran Press Watch post in Farsi.

The following roundup, based on translations from Iran Press Watch and reports from the Committee of Human Rights Reporter, the Human Rights Activists News Agency, Human Rights Activists in Iran, the Baha’i World News Service and Iran Human Rights Voice show the extent of ongoing persecution in Iran. It includes harassment, death threats and arsons [...]

The Plano Star recently conducted an interview with the wife and son of Farhang Mavaddat, a Baha’i who was executed with two other members of the Tehran Local Spiritual Assembly on trumped-up charges of espionage and insulting religion in 1981. In the interview, Farhang’s wife, Mehri, described the inhumane conditions that her husband was held [...]

Human Rights Activists in Iran has posted a video of the desecration that befell the Baha’i cemetery in Semnan on the 15th of February.

Almost 30 years ago, Manousheed Bagha’s mother was executed for the sole purpose of being an adherent of the Baha’i Faith. Upon hearing that the cemetery of Khavaran, where her mother was buried, faces the threat of destruction, she wrote the following heartfelt letter (via HRA Iran) to her countrymen.
With sadness, dismay, a heavy heart [...]

Human Rights Activists in Iran has posted pictures of the complete destruction that has befallen the Baha’i cemetery in Qaemshahr. The first attack against the cemetery occurred on the 23rd of October, where almost 80% of the graves were destroyed by bulldozers, and less than 2 weeks later, a second attack was carried out.
In yesterday’s [...]

In his blog, Arash Kamangir writes that there are local reports indicating that attempts have been made to demolish the Khavaran cemetery in South East Tehran. Khavaran cemetery is believed to be the burial site of the victims of the mass political executions of 1988, and families frequently gather at the cemetery to commemorate their [...]