Human Rights Activists in Iran has posted a video of the recent destruction of a Baha’i cemetery in the Iranian town of Ghaemshahr. According to an earlier report, the Baha’i community of Ghaemshahr were demanded to cease using the cemetery at Darzikola by the Ministry of Intelligence last May. The

Less than a month after the desecration of the Baha’i cemetery in Isfahan, Human Rights Activists in Iran reports that the Baha’i cemetery in  the town of Ghaemshahr faced an even more intensive destruction. According to the report, approximately 80% of the graves were destroyed by bulldozers. According to Iran Press Watch, the desecrated graveyard [...]

The desecration of cemeteries has always been used as a tactic to supress and offend, and Iran’s Bahai minority has faced this abuse for decades. The most recent desecration took place just days ago on the 27th of September in Isfahan, where trees were cut down from a Baha’i cemetery. Images are presented below. This [...]

We first reported on the destruction of the Baha’i Cemetery of Najaf-Abad (just outside of the central town of Isfahan) on a September 17 posting. This was followed with more details on September 21 and October 1 postings. And more recently, on November 2, we shared a write up and pictures of this destruction under [...]

From a mailing list: The government officials in the city of Najafabad , in Isfahan have allocated a certain area on the mountains for Baha’is to bury their dead, in the middle of no where, of which Baha’is are still thankful. Very recently, as you know, this site allocated to the Baha’I people had been [...]

The Baha’i World News Service published a recent report concerning the most recent destruction of Baha’i cemeteries in Iran (also noted earlier here.) The report notes: The bulldozing of a Baha’i cemetery in Iran last week is the latest in a series of incidents in a government-led campaign of hatred against Baha’is. The destruction of [...]

Omid, a Baha’i whose family is from Yazd, recently posted this on Mideast Youth: The destruction of yet another Baha’i holy place in Iran has prompted an outcry by Baha’is around the world, who see that the Iranian Government is persisting in a campaign of persecution so extreme in the fanaticism driving it that it [...]