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Tag "* Persecution, Iran"

tag name: * Persecution, Iran type: Persecution
web link: *_Persecution,_Iran
references: www.bic.org/focus-areas/situation-iranian-bahais
referring tags: Hojjatieh Society; Iranian revolution (1979); Martyrs, Shiraz 1983

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  1. Christopher Buck. 175 Years of Persecution: A History of the Bábís and Bahá'ís of Iran, by Fereydun Vahman: Review (2021-03-22).
  2. Manuchehr Derakhshani, trans, Nesreen Akhtarkhavari, trans. 1867 Petition from Bahá'ís in Shushtar, Iran, to the U.S. Congress, An (2006). — A petition sent by Baha'is in Persia in 1867 to the US Consulate general, seeking assistance in gett...
  3. 1970-1995: Newspaper articles archive (1970-1995). — Collection of newspaper articles from 1970-1995.
  4. Activities in Iran in the 1960s: Documents from the US government (1964-12-11). — State Dept., CIA, and Defense documents regarding activities in Iran in the 1960s.
  5. Bahá'u'lláh. Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh (2018/2023). — 80 selections, updated August 2023.
  6. Peter J. Khan. Address at Queen's Birthday Weekend Conference, Aukland (2000-06). — Addresses a variety of issues facing the Baha'i community, especially as pertains to New Zealand Ba...
  7. Mehraeen Mottahedin-Mavaddat, Moojan Momen. Alavíyyih Khánum and 'Alí Ján, Mullá (2009). — On the couple, both distinguished Iranian teachers of the Baha’i Faith; Mulla ‘Ali Jan was execu...
  8. Moojan Momen. Ali Bastami, Mulla (1995).
  9. Moojan Momen. Alí Bastámí, Mullá (2009). — On the second disciple to recognize the Bab, and the first Babi martyr.
  10. Denis MacEoin. Alí Bastámí, Mullá (1985). — Very brief article, short enough to qualify as "fair use."
  11. Dan Rather. American Dream, The: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation (2001). — Commentary on Baha'i persecutions, by a famous TV news anchor.
  12. Mehdi Abedi, Michael M. J. Fischer. Anti-Bahá'í Society, The (1990). — Autobiographical stories of Abedi and his involvement in opposition to the Baha'i Faith in Iran with...
  13. Sholeh A. Quinn. Aqasi, Haji Mirza ('Abbas Iravani) (2009). — On the prime minister of Iran under Muhammad Shah Qajar from 1835 to 1848, regarded by Baha’is as ...
  14. Leila Chamankhah. At Home in the Ghettos: Bahá'ís in Iran (2010-03-16). — Essay on the causes of distrust and estrangement between Shias and Baha'is. The term "ghetto" here r...
  15. John Paul Vader. August Forel Defends the Persecuted Persian Bahá'ís: 1925-1927 (1986). — History of Forel's involvement with the Faith. Includes correspondence from Shoghi Effendi.
  16. Hussein Ahdieh, Hillary Chapman. Awakening: A History of the Bábi and Bahá'í Faiths in Nayriz (2013). — Eight items: The complete book in Spanish, sample chapter in English, reviews, audio interview, and ...
  17. Hussein Ahdieh, trans. Awakening: A History of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in Nayriz, by Hussein Ahdieh: Review (2013-09). — English translation of a short review in Persian.
  18. Anne Pearson. Awakening: A History of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in Nayriz, by Hussein Ahdieh: Review (2015).
  19. Naysan Naraqi. Awakening: A History of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in Nayriz, by Hussein Ahdieh: Review (2013-10-21). — Brief review of book, and short interview with Ahdieh, conducted by bahaiblog.net.
  20. Robert Harris. Awakening: A History of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths in Nayriz, by Hussein Ahdieh: Review (2013).
  21. Ahang Rabbani, ed, Ahang Rabbani, trans. Báb in Shiraz, The: An Account by Mírzá Habíbu'lláh Afnán (2008). — Recollections of the early years of the Bab and his family, and the times following his declaration;...
  22. Moojan Momen. Babi and Bahá'í community of Iran, The: A case of 'suspended genocide'? (2005-06). — A description of the four phases of the persecutions that the Babis and Baha’is in Iran have suffe...
  23. Moojan Momen. Babi and Bahá'í Religions 1844-1944: Some Contemporary Western Accounts (1981). — A lengthy collection of first-hand reports and mentions of the Babi and Baha'i religions in contempo...
  24. John Walbridge. Babi Martyrs, Some (2002). — Includes bios of Shaykh Salih Karimi, Mulla Abd al-Karim Qazvini, the Farhadis of Qazvin, the Seven ...
  25. John Walbridge. Bábí Uprising in Zanjan, The (1996 Winter/Fall). — A study of the Babi uprising in Zanjan in 1850, examining the social, economic, and political backg...
  26. Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam. Babi-State Conflicts of 1848-1853, The (2003-12-23). — Overview of four conflicts between the Babis and the Qajar state: one at Shaykh Tabarsi in Mazandara...
  27. Moojan Momen. Badí` Khurasani (1995). — Short biography of Badi, a Baha'i renowned for his bravery and devotion.
  28. Adam Berry. Bahá'í Faith and Its Relationship to Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, The: A Brief History (2004-09-22). — Baha'i history in Iran and America; relationship with Christian missionaries in Iran and Christian c...
  29. John Walbridge. Bahá'í Faith in Iran, The (2002). — Includes essay "Three Clerics and a Prince of Isfahan: background to Baha'u'llah's Epistle to the So...
  30. Bahá'í International Community. Baha'i Institute Of Higher Education, The: A Creative And Peaceful Response To Religious Persecution In Iran (1999-04-01). — Overview of the history and architecture of BIHE, the independent, full-fledged, yet completely dece...
  31. Haji Mirza Haydar-Ali. Youness Khan Afroukhteh, trans. Bahá'í Martyrdoms in Persia in the Year 1903 AD (1917). — A memoir by Abdu'l-Baha, erroneously credited to Haji Mirza Haydar-Ali, published in English as a 28...
  32. Christopher Buck. 'Bahá'í Question' in Iran: Influence of International Law on 'Islamic Law' (2021). — On the "Baha’i question," a secret Iranian government document from 1991 which sets out oppressive...
  33. Bahá'í International Community. Bahá'í Question, The: Cultural Cleansing in Iran (2008-09).
  34. Universal House of Justice, comp. Bahá'í World, The: Volume 18 (1979-1983) (1986). — Periodic volumes that survey the global activities and major achievements of the Faith.
  35. Tahirih Tahririha-Danesh, ed. Bahá'í-Inspired Perspectives on Human Rights (2001). — Articles by Kiser Barnes, Greg Duly, Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims, Graham Hassall, Darren Hedley, Nazila...
  36. Moojan Momen. Baha'is and the Constitutional Revolution, The: The Case of Sari, Mazandaran, 1906-1913 (2008-06). — Accounts of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran have tended to ignore the role of the Baha’is. T...
  37. Firuz Kazemzadeh. Bahá'ís in Iran, The: Twenty Years of Repression (2000-07). — Overview of the modern persecution of Baha'is in Iran.
  38. Ankita Sanyal. Baha'is in Post-revolution Iran: Perspectives of the Ulema (2019). — Historical background of the ulema/monarchy equation; the Ayatollahs’ take on the Baha’is after ...
  39. Roger White. Bahá'u'lláh and the Fourth Estate (1986). — Baha'u'llah's response to the martyrdom of seven Baha'is in Yazd in May, 1891, and his relationship ...
  40. Shoghi Effendi. Bahai Movement, The: A paper read by Shoghi Effendi at Oxford (1923-1924). — Text of an address given to the Oxford University Asiatic Society, February 1921, before the passing...
  41. Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam. Bábí-State Conflict at Shaykh Tabarsí, The (2004). — Analysis of first of four major clashes between the Babis and the Qajar state from 1848-1853. The Ba...
  42. M. E. Hume-Griffith. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East (1909). — Three-page history of the Bab and his execution, with reference to the persecutions in Yazd.
  43. Akbar E. Torbat. Brain Drain from Iran to the United States, The (2002 Spring). — Excerpt from article mentioning the exodus of Baha'i intelligentsia from Iran in 1979, and the Baha'...
  44. Nasser Mohajer. Ahang Rabbani, trans, Ahang Rabbani, ed. Brutal Slashing to Death of Dr Berjis, The (2011-05). — English translation of an article in Persian about persecutions during the Pahlavi regime, and the d...
  45. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States, Amnesty International, United States Department of State, Alan Dershowitz. Cases of Dhabihu'llah Mahrami and Musa Talibi, The (1998-04). — In June 1994 and January 1996, two Baha'is in Iran were arrested and later sentenced to death for th...
  46. Aqa Abdu'l-Ahad Zanjani. E. G. Browne, trans. Chronicle of `Abdu'l-Ahad Zanjani: Personal Reminiscences of the Insurrection at Zanjan (1897). — Translation of an account of the Babi struggle at Zanjan in 1850, as recollected by an aged eyewitne...
  47. Jonah Winters, comp. Chronology of Persecutions of Babis and Baha'is (1998).
  48. Salim A. Nakhjavani. Constitutional Coherence and the Legal Status of the Bahá'í Community of Iran (2016-11). — Constitutional coherence as a process norm; unfulfilled constitutional promises; aspects of the Iran...
  49. Michael Karlberg. Constructive Imaginary, The (2020). — In a 2007 letter on the closing of the BIHE, the Universal House of Justice introduced the concept o...
  50. Firaydoun Javaheri. Constructive Resilience (2018). — How the perseverance of the Baha'is in Iran has resulted in the generality of the Iranian people beg...
  51. Michael Karlberg. Constructive Resilience: The Bahá'í Response to Oppression (2010-04). — Example of the non-adversarial approach of the Baha'is in Iran toward social change, their collectiv...
  52. Marzieh Gail. Dawn over Mount Hira and Other Essays (1976). — A collection of essays on various topics of interest to Baha'i studies and history. Most of these we...
  53. Boris Handal. De la Córdoba Mora a los Bahá'ís de Irán (2010). — Contrast between the contemporary Iranian Baha'i community and the treatment of religious minorities...
  54. Universal House of Justice, National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Deaths of Two Iranian Bahá'ís, 1997 (1997-08-18). — Reports from the Universal House of Justice and the NSA of the United States on the deaths of Masha'...
  55. Adib Masumian. Debunking the Myths: Conspiracy Theories on the Genesis and Mission of the Bahá'í Faith (2009). — Response to Iranian conspiracy theories portraying the Baha'i Faith as a subversive political group,...
  56. John Walbridge. Document and Narrative Sources for the History of the Battle of Zanjan (1998-05). — Analysis of Muslim and Baha'i historical texts, including Dawnbreakers.
  57. Mark Perry. Dress for Mona, A: Abridged one-act version (2002). — The story of Mona Mahmudnizhad.
  58. Helen Cheng, Catherine Nash. Emblems of Faithfulness: Pluralism in Meaning and Beauty in the Ordinary (2015). — Memorials of the Faithful is notable for the diversity of personalities described, and the sheer ord...
  59. Universal House of Justice. European Bahá'í Youth Conference in Innsbruck (1983-07-04). — Challenges facing European Baha'i Youth, followed by consolation to Baha'i youth in light of the 198...
  60. Muhammad-Tahir Malmiri. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Events and Tragedies of Manshád, The (2007). — Events and martyrs from the uprisings in Manshad and Yazd, in 1903. A translation of Haji Malmiri's ...
  61. Baharieh Rouhani Ma'ani. Eyewitness Account of the Massacre of Bahá'ís in Nayriz, 1909 (2013). — Shaykh Dhakariyya's rebellion in Nayriz culminated in the martyrdom of nineteen Baha'is on Naw Ruz, ...
  62. Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. Faith Denied, A: The Persecution of the Bahá'ís of Iran (2006-12). — The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center's account of persecutions of Baha'is of Iran (2006).
  63. Ali Nakhjavani. Flame with Us, A (n.d.). — Discussion of the persecution of the Baha'is in Iran and the need for Baha'is to be transformed and ...
  64. Hooper Dunbar. Forces of Our Time: Lecture Series (2011-04). — Six lectures series at Bosch Baha'i School, April 15-17 2011.
  65. Hussein Ahdieh, Hillary Chapman. Foreigner: From an Iranian Village to New York City and the Lights That Led the Way (2019). — Biography of a young boy in Nayriz, Iran in the mid 20th-century, his reflection on the sad society;...
  66. Boris Handal. From Moorish Cordova to the Bahá'ís of Iran: Islamic Tolerance and Intolerance (2007-09-08). — Though Baha'is are persecuted in Iran, Muhammad taught understanding and respect towards religious m...
  67. Naghme Naseri Morlock. From Outsider to Outsider: A Study of Iranian Bahá'ís' Identity in Iran and the United States (2023). — The denial of a national identity of Baha'is in Iran; their experiences in the U.S.; cultural differ...
  68. Daniel Akira Stadnicki. Hidden Words and Sounds: Tracing Iranian Legacies and Traumas in the Music of the Bahá'ís of North America (2019). — On the legacy of Persian culture, aesthetics, and history of religious persecution as reflected in B...
  69. Mahmoud Sadri. Hojjatieh (Hujjatiya) (2004). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  70. Reuters. Human Rights Watch on Persecution of Baha'is in Iran (1997-09-24). — Two articles covering a report by Human Rights Watch on the treatment of the Baha'is and other minor...
  71. Geoffrey Cameron. In the Face of Oppression (2011-07-29). — The Baha'is in Iran have long been persecuted, but stand strong in their pursuit of a just society.
  72. Anthony Lee. Interview with Ruhollah Geula regarding Robert Imbrie (1997-09). — Interview by Lee, the general editor of Kalimat Press, with his father-in-law, an eyewitness to the...
  73. Thomas Schirrmacher. Iran: Suppression of religious freedom and persecution of religious minorities: case studies (2009). — The legal status of non-Shiite Muslims, Baha'is, and various Christian confessions in Iran.
  74. Ervand Abrahamian. Iran between Two Revolutions (1982). — Multiple references to the Baha'i Faith, in an academic book of history.
  75. Saman Sabeti. Iran's Systemic Denial of Access to Higher Education (2017). — Discrimination as embedded in the Iranian Constitution and in higher education since 1979; dismissal...
  76. Universal House of Justice. Inayat Rawhani, trans. Iranian Expatriates, Letter to, following 1979 Iranian Revolution (1986). — Letter of support and guidance to Iranians who had recently fled the Iranian Revolution, dated 10 Fe...
  77. Ted Slavin. Iranian fun and games with Bahá'í followers (2010-08-21). — Satirical look at contemporary Iranian persecutions of the Baha'is.
  78. Allen K. Jones. Iranian Refugees: The Many Faces of Persecution (1984-12). — A paper detailing the persecution and displacement of Iranian refugees (including Baha'is) due to re...
  79. Christopher Buck. Islam and Minorities: The Case of the Baha'is (2003-06). — "The Baha'i question" is really a test case for whether Islam can legitimately claim to respect huma...
  80. John L. Esposito. Islam: The Straight Path (1988). — Passing mention of political persecutions.
  81. Mark Kirk, Dick Durbin. Kirk, Durbin Introduce Resolution Condemning Iran's Continued Persecution of Bahá'í Minority (2013-03-12). — In recognition of the five-year anniversary of imprisonment of Baha'i leaders in Iran, senators meet...
  82. Robin Wright. Last Great Revolution, The: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran (2000). — Mentions of the Baha'is not having political representation in Iran; brief summary of Baha'i persecu...
  83. Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Haifa. Letter to the Friends, Throughout the East and the West, through the Spiritual Assemblies (1938-02). — 3-page report by Z. N. Zeine on questions directed at a Dr. 'Abdu'llah Jawid in Khorasan "as a resul...
  84. Abdu'l-Bahá. Light of the World: Selected Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá (2021). — Tablets of ‘Abdul-Baha describing aspects of the life of Baha’u’llah including the tribulation...
  85. Hussein Ahdieh. Making of a Survivor, The: A Foreigner's Story (2019-05-22). — The author on his new book, growing up as a Baha’i in Iran, and how his faith and family nourished...
  86. Siyyid Muhammad Tabib Manshadi. Ahang Rabbani, trans, Naghmeh Astani, trans. Martyrs of Manshad (1996/2005). — Detailed eyewitness account of martyrdoms in Iran in 1903.
  87. A.L.M. Nicolas. Massacres de Babis en Perse (1936). — On events in 1903 in Rasht, Isfahan, Yazd, and Tehran, written by a French consul in Iran.
  88. Moshe Sharon. Memoirs of Count Dolgorukov: A Summary (2011). — Summary of pages 25-91 of the Arabic text of the "Memoirs of Count Dolgorukov," a fraudulent work.
  89. Mention of the Babi and Baha'i Faiths in the New York Times 1852 - 1922 (1852-1922). — 45 articles and brief mentions, spanning 70 years.
  90. Universal House of Justice. Geoffrey W. Marks, comp. Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986: Third Epoch of the Formative Age (1996).
  91. Bahram Choubine. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Muhammad Musaddiq and the Bahá'ís (2010). — Two essays: "Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh and the Baha’is" (2009) and "Suppression of the Baha’is of I...
  92. Darius Shahrokh, Grace Shahrokh. Mystery of Martyrdom, The (1992). — Life stories of many early martyrs, and some explanations of what inspires self-sacrifice.
  93. Soheila Vahdati. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Nabil's Narrative: What History has Forgotten (2008-09-18). — An outsider's view of how Iranian media and society have glossed over or intentionally obscured Iran...
  94. Bahá'í International Community. Nature of the Persecution against the Bahá'ís in Iran (2010-02). — The situation of the Baha'is in Iran in 2010; historical and legal context; denial of individual and...
  95. Douglas Martin. Next Stage, The (2013). — Baha'i scholars find themselves at a stage in the Faith’s development where they must construct a ...
  96. Bani Dugal. Morten Bergsmo, ed, Kishan Manocha, ed. Non-Governmental Perspective on the Relative Effectiveness of Multilateral and Bilateral Measures to Combat Hate Speech, A: An Analysis of Tools Deployed in Response to Religious Hate Speech in Iran (2023-07). — International Human Rights framework; Iran's obligations under international law; history of Baha'i ...
  97. Bui Tyril. Nonpartisan Engagement in Public Affairs: A Critical Analysis of the Bahá'í Approach to Dialogue, Democracy, and Diplomatic Relations (2009-10). — How to address the dilemma of protesting human rights abuses in Iran while remaining non-partisan. L...
  98. Jaine Toth. Now They Are Hanging Women (2018). — Notes and script of a presentation on contemporary persecution of Baha'is in Iran; title taken from ...
  99. Susan Maneck. Old Charges for a New Religion, Some (2009-01-24). — The background and significance of the fantastic charges made against Baha’is in Iran and elsewher...
  100. Ervand Abrahamian. Paranoid Style in Iranian Politics, The (1993). — A seminal essay which mentions contemporary Iranian attitudes toward the Baha'is. Includes three oth...
  101. Universal House of Justice, comp. Persecution of the Bahá'í Community of Iran: 1983-1986 (1994). — Lengthy survey of events, and life stories of participants.
  102. Tahirih Tahririha-Danesh. Persecution of the Bahá'í Community of Iran Under the Islamic Republic: Twenty Years of Intolerance (2000). — Description of some of the persecutions of the Baha'i community in Iran over the past twenty years.
  103. Bahá'í International Community. Persecution of the Baha'is in Iran: 1979-1986: A 7-year campaign to eliminate a religious minority (1986). — Overview of activities and propaganda against Baha'is in Iran, and the responses of the United Natio...
  104. Douglas Martin. Persecution of the Bahá'ís of Iran 1844-1984 (1984). — Treatment of the Baha'is in Iran by the state and by the Shi'ism under the Qajars (1844-1925), Pahla...
  105. Various. E. G. Browne, trans. Persecutions of Babis in 1888-1891 at Isfahan and Yazd (1918). — Eyewitness or historical accounts of specific events, uprisings, and attacks, as collected by E.G. B...
  106. E. G. Browne. Personal Reminiscences of the Bábí Insurrection at Zanjan in 1850 (1897). — The testimony of Áqa 'Abdu'l-Ahad Zanjani.
  107. Petition from the Persian Reformers (1867). — A petition sent by Baha'is in Baghdad and Shushtar, Iran, in 1867 to the US Consulate general, seeki...
  108. Homa Katouzian. Political Economy of Modern Iran, The: Despotism and Pseudo-Modernism 1926-1979 (1981). — Mention of Sheikh Fazlollah Noori denouncing opponents as Babis; 1-page discussion (in footnotes) of...
  109. Universal House of Justice. Politics and Engagement in the Life of Society (2010-01-22). — On which principles should guide Iranian believers in their participation in the life of society, an...
  110. Abdu'l-Bab as-Sahyuni. Protocols of the Followers of Baha'u'llah: Anti-Bahá'í propaganda in Iran (1998). — A sympathetic overview by "Freethought Mecca" of persecution of Baha'is, and activities of the Irani...
  111. Geoffrey Cameron. Quiet Exodus, A (2013-07). — Recent history of immigration law and practice in Canada, and the Baha'i community's involvement in ...
  112. Mina Yazdani. Quiet Strangulation: Islamic Republic's Treatment of Baha'is since 1991 (2018). — Summary of persecution of Baha'is in Iran especially since 1991, and on analyses by other historians...
  113. Kimiya Tahirih Missaghi. Redefining Resiliency, Resistance, and Oppression: A Case Study of the Bahá'i Underground University in Iran (2021). — On the nature of resiliency in a systematically oppressed population; the existence and growth of th...
  114. Universal House of Justice. Reflections on the First Century of the Formative Age (2023-11-28). — Overview of the Faith's developments and activities during the previous century, including the Guard...
  115. Steven Scholl. Releasing the Captive from His Chains (1986). — Baha'i activism for human rights, and involvement with Amnesty International. Includes response by D...
  116. Moojan Momen. Religious Background of the 1979 Revolution in Iran (1995).
  117. Mina Yazdani. Religious Contentions in Modern Iran, 1881-1941 (2011). — In 20th-century Iran, anti-Bahaism played a role in transforming Shi'i religious piety into the poli...
  118. Christopher Buck. Religious Minority Rights (2008). — Discussion of three minority religions within Islamic states that have experienced persecution and h...
  119. Naghme Naseri Morlock. Religious Persecution and Oppression: A Study of Iranian Baha'ís' Strategies of Survival (2021). — Research based on extensive interviews exploring three ways that members of the Baha'i community res...
  120. Donna Hakimian. Resistance, Resilience and the Role of Narrative: Lessons from the Experiences of Iranian Bahá'í Women Prisoners (2009-06). — A study of Iranian Baha’i women who were imprisoned in Iran following the 1979 revolution. Aspects...
  121. John S. Hatcher, ed, Amrollah Hemmat, ed. Reunion with the Beloved: Poetry and Martyrdom (2004-06). — Poetry by or in honor of early Babi and Baha'i martyrs. Includes foreword by Hushmand Fatheazam, and...
  122. Nazila Ghanea-Hercock. Review of secondary literature in English on recent persecutions of Bahá'ís in Iran (1997). — Issues of misinformation, perceived favoritism under the Shah's regime, charges of espionage, and th...
  123. Geoffrey Cameron, Tahirih Danesh. Revolution without Rights?, A: Women, Kurds and Baha'is searching for equality in Iran (2008-11). — Discussion from the Foreign Policy Centre in London on the religious, legal, and social obstacles to...
  124. Tahirih Tahririha-Danesh. Right to Education, The: The Case of the Bahá'ís in Iran (2001). — On the ongoing harassment of Baha’i students and educators resulting from the state-sponsored reli...
  125. Bahram Choubine. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Sacrificing the Innocent: Suppression of Bahá'ís of Iran in 1955 (2008-01-13). — Activities of Reza Shah, Ayatollah Borujirdi, Muhammad-Taqi Falsafi, Shaykh Hossein-Ali Montazeri, a...
  126. Alexandra Leavy. Searching for Bahá'í Identity (2009-08). — How do religious minorities adapt to the new nationalist identity of Iran post-1979?
  127. James B. Thomas. Service, Joy and Sacrifice: An Essay on Commentaries by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (2004). — On the exemplary life of service to God and to humankind; choosing to change one's life from predom...
  128. Aqa Mirza Qabil Abadeh'i. Sepehr Manuchehri, trans. Shah Abdu'llah and the Bahá'ís of Abadeh: An account of the persecution of Bahá'ís by followers of an imaginary Imam (2001-05). — Account of persecutions in Abadeh, Fars province, in 1901.
  129. Shirin Ebadi: A collection of newspaper articles (2003-10). — Articles about the winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize who has championed the rights of the Baha'i ...
  130. Reza Afshari. Slice of Persia in the Heart of Israel, A: Followers of the Baha'i Faith Are Persecuted at Home but Welcomed Abroad (2021-02-18). — Brief reflections by a Muslim professor of history on the experience of visiting the Baha'i World Ce...
  131. Moojan Momen. Social Basis of the Bábí Upheavals in Iran (1848-1953): A Preliminary Analysis (1983). — In the mid-19th century, Iran was shaken by unrest caused by the Babi movement, which set off a chai...
  132. Friedrich W. Affolter. Specter of Ideological Genocide, The: The Bahá'ís of Iran (2005-01). — History of the persecution and suppression of the Baha'is in Iran, through the lens of genocide stud...
  133. Bahá'u'lláh, Universal House of Justice. Khazeh Fananapazir, trans. Tablet to Sháh-Muhammad-Amín (Amínu'l-Bayán) (Lawh-i-Amínu'l-Bayán): Excerpt (2003-04-07). — Excerpt of a tablet revealed in honour of the first Trustee of Huquq’u’llah, surnamed the “Tru...
  134. Bahá'u'lláh. Hasan M. Balyuzi, trans. Tablet to Shaykh Kazim-i-Samandar II (Lawh-i-Shaykh Kazim-i-Samandar II) (1985).
  135. Bahá'u'lláh. Mehdi Wolf, ed. Tablet to The Times of London (1987). — Short tablet calling newspapers to investigate the Truth.
  136. Bahá'u'lláh. Hasan M. Balyuzi, trans. Tablet to Varqá Regarding the Prince and King of Martyrs (Lawh-i-Varqá dar barih-yi-Mahbubu wa Sultánu'sh-Shuhada) (1985). — Short tablet of tribute to the King and Beloved of the Martyrs, from H. M. Balyuzi's Eminent Baha...
  137. Iraj Ayman. Tablets of Pilgrimage (Suriy-i-Hajj): Wilmette Institute faculty notes (1999). — In the Aqdas, Baha'i pilgrimage is enjoined to the House of Baha'u'llah in Baghdad and the House of ...
  138. Sepehr Manuchehri. Taqiyyah (Dissimulation) in the Babi and Bahá'í Religions (2000). — The historical application of taqiyyah and instances where Babis cooperated with the authorities in ...
  139. Universal House of Justice, Bahá'í International Community. Television Address of Iranian President Khatami (1998-07). — Questions and answers about a historically unique television interview of Iranian President Khatami,...
  140. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada. The Story of Mona: 1965-1983 (1985). — Biography of Mona Mahmudnizhad, an Iranian teenager who, in 1983, together with nine other women, wa...
  141. Marzieh Gail. The White Silk Dress (1945). — An "intimate portrait" of Ṭahirih first published Friday April 21, 1944.
  142. Geoffrey Cameron. Threatening Agenda, A: Iran's Shameful Denial of Education to its Bahá'í Community (2008-06-06). — Iranian government hardliners promote a coordinated and threatening agenda aimed at suffocating the ...
  143. Adib Masumian, trans. Translation List: Provisional Translations of Baháʼí Literature (2009-2023). — Index to talks, letters, and other items translated from Persian and Arabic to English by Adib Masum...
  144. Abdu'l-Bahá. Ahang Rabbani, trans. Treatise on Persecution of Bahá'ís in 1903 (2007-12). — Events in Isfahán and Yazd from March-September 1903.
  145. Christopher Buck. Trial of The Yaran ("Friends in Iran"): Six Essays (2009-2010). — Six essays by Buck from a legal perspective about the extended imprisonment of seven Baha'i leaders ...
  146. Said Amir Arjomand. Turban for the Crown, The (1988). — Passing mentions of Babis and Baha'is on six pages.
  147. Kofi Annan. Sahba Sobhani, ed. United Nations and the Bahá'ís, The: An Interview with Kofi Annan (1999 Spring). — Annan's vision for the institution of the U.N., and mentions of the Baha'is in Iran.
  148. Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Cultural Relativism and the Persecution of the Bahá'ís in Iran, The (2001). — Are the Human Rights of the Universal Declaration universal: a comparison of Western and Islamic not...
  149. Darius Shahrokh. Varqa and Son: The Heavenly Doves (1992). — History of the family of Varqa, the only family with the distinction of having a grandfather, a fath...
  150. Iraj Ayman. Varqá, Ali-Mohammad (2017). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  151. Boris Handal. Varqá and Rúhu'lláh: 101 Stories of Bravery on the Move (2020). — On the lives of Varqa, the physician and talented poet, and his gifted adolescent son Ruhu'llah, who...
  152. Bahá'í International Community. Violence with Impunity: Acts of aggression against Iran's Bahá'í community (2013-03). — Book-length report on the rising tide of violence directed against the Iranian Baha'i community 2005...
  153. Hussein Ahdieh. What Did They Die For? (2019-08-28). — Reflections on the Baha'is of Iran, the discrimination and brutality they have faced, and how their ...
  154. Geoffrey Nash. What is Bahá'í Orientalism? (2021). — Postcolonial theory can help analyze religious writing; Edward Said and the concept of mutual otheri...
  155. Ahang Rabbani. Witnesses to Babi and Bahá'í History (1996-2010). — Multiple volumes of historical materials, translations, and original research.
  156. Hussein Ahdieh, Hillary Chapman. Maryam Rouhani Seysan, trans. صبح بيداری تاریخ دیانت بابی و بهائي در نی‌ریز (Subh-i Bídárí: Táríkh-i Díyánat-i Bábí va Baháʼí dar Nayríz): Awakening: A History of the Bábi and Baháʼí Faiths in Nayriz (2014). — An historical account of the brutal persecutions of 1850, 1853, and 1909 in the town of Nayriz, Iran...

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  1. 1845-02-28 — The Bab returned to Búshihr. He sent Quddús to Shiraz with a letter addressed to His uncle Haji Mi...
  2. 1845-06-24 — After expelling Mulla Husayn and Mulla Sadiq the governor of Fars, Hasayn Khan-i-Irvani ordered that...
  3. 1845-06-30 — At Dalaki, some 40 miles northeast of the Búshihr, the Bab met the soldiers of the governor of Fars...
  4. 1846-06-23 — Quddús met Mulla Sadiq-i-Muqaddas in Shiraz to whom he entrusted a copy of Khasa'il-i-Sab`ih (`the ...
  5. 1846-07-00 — The Chief Constable, 'Abdu'l-Hamid Khan, was instructed by order of the governor, Hasayn Khan, to br...
  6. 1847-09-00 — The murder of Haji Mulla Muhammad Taqi, the powerful uncle of Tahirih, by Mulla `Abdu'llah of Shiraz...
  7. 1847-10-00 — Tahirih was accused of instigating the assassination of her uncle, Muhammad Taqi Baraghani, and was...
  8. 1847-11-00 — Baha'u'llah, who was living in Tihran, visited the detainees from Qazvin and gave them money. [BKG41...
  9. 1848-07-17 — The Babis left Badasht for Mazindaran. They were attacked by a mob of more than 500 outside the vill...
  10. 1848-09-04 — The death of the chronically ill Muhammad Shah whom Shoghi Effendi described as bigoted, sickly and ...
  11. 1848-12-19 — The siege of the Shrine of Shaykh Tabarsi began in earnest with the arrival of `Abdu'llah Khan's for...
  12. 1849-02-02 — Soon after midnight, Mulla Husayn led a charge of 313 men that again routed the king's army. He was ...
  13. 1849-05-10 — The end of the siege of the fort at Shaykh Tabarsi. Two hundred and two Babis were tricked into leav...
  14. 1849-05-16 — Quddús was tortured and, in the public square, he was struck down with an axe, dismembered and burn...
  15. 1849-06-00 — The Bab, in prison in the castle of Chihriq, learned of the massacre at Shaykh Tabarsi and the marty...
  16. 1850-02-19 — The Babi group in Tehran had been infiltrated by an informer who betrayed about fifty of its members...
  17. 1850-02-20 — Martyrdom of the Seven Martyrs of Tihran. Seven of the Babis were executed in Tihran on the false ch...
  18. 1850-04-00 — The house of Vahid in Yazd was attacked by crowds and pillaged. The crowd was dispersed by Mulla Muh...
  19. 1850-05-00 — The start of the Zanjan upheaval. Hujjat had converted a sizeable proportion of the town and tension...
  20. 1850-05-16 — Martyrdom of Shaykh Muhammad-i-Túb-Chi in Zanjan, the first of the martyrs. [BBR115; DB542–3]...
  21. 1850-05-19 — The Governor sent a mob against Hujjat, (Mulla Muhammad-Ali) which was dispersed by Mir Salah. The G...
  22. 1850-05-27 — First Nayriz upheaval. Vahid traveled from Yazd towards Shiraz, eventually coming to Nayriz. He went...
  23. 1850-06-17 — At Nayriz, Vahid received a message from the Governor offering a truce and a promise of safety writt...
  24. 1850-06-24 — The severed heads of 13 Babis arrived in Shiraz from Nayriz. They were raised on lances and paraded ...
  25. 1850-06-29 — Vahid was martyred in Nayriz. [Bab182; BW18:381; DB495, 499; GPB42; RB1:265] See DB494 for detai...
  26. 1850-07-08 — The Bab, divested of His turban and sash, was taken on foot to the barracks in Tabriz. Mirza Muhamma...
  27. 1850-07-09 — Martyrdom of the Bab In the morning the Bab was taken to the homes of the leading clerics to obt...
  28. 1850-08-25 — The arrival of 'Aziz Khan-i-Mukri, commander-in-chief of Iran's army, in Zanjan where the fighting b...
  29. 1850-10-03 — Two of Vahid's companions were executed in Shiraz....
  30. 1851-03-02 — Four Babis brought from Zanjan were executed in Tihran. [BW18:382]...
  31. 1851-04-30 — Mulla Hasan-i-Fadil was executed in Yazd when he refused to recant. [BW18:382]...
  32. 1851-05-01 — Áqa Husayn was blown from a canon in Yazd. [BW18:382]...
  33. 1851-07-23 — Áqa Muhammad-Sadiq-i-Yúzdarani was beaten to death in Yazd after refusing to recant. [BW18:382]...
  34. 1851-08-04 — Áqa 'Ali-Akbar-i-Hakkak was blown from a canon after refusing to recant. [BW18:382]...
  35. 1851-11-00 — Siyyid Basir-Hindi, a blind Indian, was put to death by Ildirim Mirza. [BW18:382] For details of...
  36. 1852-08-15 — "In the hecatomb of 1852-1853 the ranks of the Babis were drastically thinned. Most of the leading
  37. 1852-08-16 — The martyrdom of Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn) in Tihran. [BBR172–3; BBRSM:30; BW18:382; BKG87; MF203] ...
  38. 1852-08-18 — A large number of Babis were arrested in Tihran and its environs following the attempt on the life o...
  39. 1852-08-22 — After the initial executions, about 20 or more Babis were distributed among the various courtiers an...
  40. 1852-08-26 — An account of the punishment meted out to those who participated in the attempt on the life of the S...
  41. 1852-08-30 — In Milan, Iran, 15 Babis were arrested and imprisoned. [BW18:382] Many Babis were tortured and k...
  42. 1852-08-31 — Baha'u'llah's imprisonment in the Siyah-Chal See AB10–11, BBD211–12, BKG79–83, CH41–2, ...
  43. 1853-03-26 — Five Babis, acting on their own initiative, murdered the governor of Nayriz, providing the spark for...
  44. 1853-10-00 — Second Nayriz upheaval. [BBR147–51; BBRSM:217; BW18:382; DB642–5;] The new governor of Nayri...
  45. 1853-10-31 — Some 600 female and 80 to 180 male Babis are taken prisoner at Nayriz and marched to Shiraz, along w...
  46. 1853-11-24 — The prisoners from Nayriz and the heads of the martyrs arrived in Shiraz. More Babis were executed a...
  47. 1864-04-10 — Shaykh Muhammad-Baqir, 'the Wolf', ordered the arrest of several hundred Babis and had them brought...
  48. 1866-12-00 — About a hundred Baha'is were arrested in Tabriz following a disturbance in which a Babi is killed. [...
  49. 1867-01-11 — Three Baha'is were executed in Tabriz. Their arrest was precipitated by conflict and rivalry between...
  50. 1867-01-31 — Mirza Muhammad-'Ali, a Baha'i physician, was executed in Zanjan. [BBR253; BKG238; BW18:383]Áqa Naja...
  51. 1867-04-00 — The appeal by 53 Baha'is "in Baghdad" addressed to the United States Congress arrived at the America...
  52. 1867-09-05 — Persecutions began anew in Ádharbayjan, Zanjan, Nishapúr and Tihran. [GPB178]...
  53. 1868-07-21 — Mirza Abu'l-Qasim-i-Shirazi was arrested in Egypt and money extorted from him. [BBR257–8; BKG243; ...
  54. 1868-08-01 — Mulla Muhammad-Rida, Rida'r-Rúh was poisoned in Yazd. [BW18:383]...
  55. 1869-00-00 — The 17-year-old Áqa Buzurg-i-Nishapúri, Badi`, arrived in `Akka having walked from Mosul. He was a...
  56. 1869-07-00 — Badi` delivered the Tablet of Baha'u'llah to the Shah. He was tortured and executed. [BBRXXXIX; BKG3...
  57. 1869-12-25 — A mob attacked the Baha'is in Faran, Khurasan, Iran, and two were severely beaten. [BW18:383]...
  58. 1870-00-00 — In Zanjan, Áqa Siyyid Ashraf was arrested, condemned to death as a Babi and executed. [BWG470] H...
  59. 1875-00-01 — The `ulama arouse the rabble against the Baha'is in Sidih, Isfahan. Several Baha'is were imprisoned,...
  60. 1876-00-01 — Six Baha'is were arrested in Tihran and imprisoned for three months and 17 days. [BW18:383]...
  61. 1877-09-00 — Haji `Abdu'l-Majid-i-Nishapúri was executed in Mashhad. [BW18:383]...
  62. 1880-00-00 — Martyrdom of seven Baha'is in Sultanabad. [BW18:383] Three Baha'is were killed on the orders of S...
  63. 1882-00-00 — Mirza `Ali-Muhammad Varqa was arrested in Yazd. He is sent to Isfahan where he was imprisoned for a ...
  64. 1882-12-31 — The Tihran Upheaval. A number of leading members of the Tihran Baha'i community were arrested and...
  65. 1883-00-00 — Six Baha'is were arrested in Yazd and sent to Isfahan in chains. BW18:383] Four Baha'is were arre...
  66. 1883-03-19 — Sixteen Baha'i traders of the bazaar were arrested in Rasht; three others are brought from Lahijan. ...
  67. 1885-03-27 — Martyrdom of Mulla `Aliy-i-Namiqi in Namiq, Turbat-i-Haydari, Khurasan. [BW18:383]...
  68. 1887-00-00 — Karbala'i Hasan Khan and Karbala'i Sadiq were arrested in Sarvistan, Fars, and imprisoned for two ye...
  69. 1888-07 — Two Baha'is were arrested in Sarvistan, Fars, and were sent to Shiraz, where one was imprisoned. [BW...
  70. 1888-10-23 — The martyrdom of Mirza Ashraf of Ábadih in Isfahan. He was hanged, his body burnt and left hanging ...
  71. 1889-07-18 — The Baha'is were persuaded to leave the Telegraph Office in Isfahan after being assured that they wo...
  72. 1889-08-00 — Baha'is of Sidih and Najafabad, after having received no help or protection, went to Tihran to petit...
  73. 1890-00-02 — Haji Ákhúnd, Haji Amin and Ibn-i-Abhar were arrested. Haji Ákhúnd was imprisoned in Tihran for t...
  74. 1890-02-25 — Seven Baha'is from Sidih who had gone to Tihran to petition the Shah for protection, secured a decre...
  75. 1890-08-00 — Mulla Hasan and his two brothers were arrested and beaten in Sarchah, Birjand. [BW18:383]...
  76. 1891-05-19 — The execution of the Seven Martyrs of Yazd. [BBRXXIX, BW18:384] Seven Baha'is were executed on the ...
  77. 1891-05-20 — Baha'u'llah revealed the Lawh-i-Times, Tablet to the Times in which He recounted the circumstances o...
  78. 1891-10-03 — Mulla Muhammad-`Aliy-i-Dihabadi was martyred, one of the Seven Martyrs of Yazd who were killed at th...
  79. 1892-07-02 — Áqa Murtada of Sarvistan, who had been in prison for five years, was executed in Shiraz. [BW18:384]...
  80. 1893-06-17 — Áqa Muhammad-Riday-i-Muhammadabadi was killed by three men on the orders of two of the `ulama of Ya...
  81. 1894-00-02 — Two Baha'is were arrested and bastinadoed in Nishapúr. One died seven days later, the other two yea...
  82. 1896-00-03 — Baha'is in Hisar, Khurasan were persecuted and imprisoned. [BW18:384]...
  83. 1896-00-04 — Áqa Siyyid Mihdiy-i-Yazdi was martyred in Tabriz. [BW18:384]...
  84. 1896-00-05 — Mulla Hasan Khaza'i was arrested in Khúzistan. [BW18:384]...
  85. 1896-05-02 — The martyrdom of Hand of the Cause of God Varqa ('Dove'), Mirza 'Ali-Muhammad. (b.1856 in Yazd, d. i...
  86. 1896-06-00 — Several Baha'is were beaten and four were imprisoned in Turbat-i-Haydari when two mujtahids stirred ...
  87. 1896-07-21 — Haji Muhammad Sadiq was stabbed to death in Turbat-i-Haydari. [BW18:384]...
  88. 1896-07-24 — Four Baha'is were executed in Turbat-i-Haydari on the order of the mujtahid. [BW18:384; BBR405] B...
  89. 1897-00-00 — The passing of Hand of the Cause of God Shaykh Muhammad-Riday-i-Yazdi (Mulla Rida) while incarcerate...
  90. 1897-00-00 — Fifteen Baha'is were arrested in Saysan, Ádharbayjan. They were taken to Tabriz, imprisoned and fin...
  91. 1897-02-00 — Six Baha'is were arrested in Mamaqan, Ádharbayjan. Three were bastinadoed and three were imprisoned...
  92. 1898-00-04 — Several Baha'is were arrested and imprisoned in Qazvin. [BW18:384]Haji Muhammad was set upon and kil...
  93. 1898-04-00 — Nine Baha'is attending a Ridvan meeting were arrested, beaten and imprisoned in Hamadan. [BW18:384]...
  94. 1898-06-01 — Áqa Ghulam-Husayn-i-Banadaki was killed by a mob in Yazd after refusing to deny his faith. [BW18:38...
  95. 1901-00-00 — William Hoar, one of the first Baha'is in America, was asked by `Abdu'l-Baha to meet with the Persia...
  96. 1901-05-00 — Ghulam-Rida was killed in Najafabad. [BW18:385]...
  97. 1902-00-02 — In Shiraz, Haji Abu'l-Hasan was beaten so severely on the order of the mujtahid that he died a few m...
  98. 1902-03-18 — Áqa Muhammad-Zama-i-Sabbagh and Siyyid Ja`far were executed in Isfandabad and Abarqú, Fars. Severa...
  99. 1902-09-01 — Since the assassination of the Shah's father in 1896 the Baha'i community in Iran had been scapegoat...
  100. 1903-05-03 — Upheaval at Rasht. [BBRXXX, 373] See ...
  101. 1903-05-23 — Upheaval in Isfahan: Muhammad-Javad-i-Sarraf seized was by students of Aqa Najafi and beaten severe...
  102. 1903-06-08 — Baha'is in Malayir, Hamadan, are attacked, beaten and imprisoned. Two are killed. [BW18:385]...
  103. 1903-06-14 — The Yazd Upheaval and in surrounding villages. [BBRXXX] See ...
  104. 1903-09-00 — At the request of 'Abdu'l-Baha, Haji Mirza Hadar-'Ali wrote Baha'i Martyrdoms in Persia in the Year ...
  105. 1903-12-00 — Lua Getsinger made a second petition to the Shah. It was presented through usual official channels....
  106. 1904-00-00 — The publication of Baha'i Martyrdoms in Persia in the Year 1903 AD by Haji Mirza Haydar-Ali Isfahani...
  107. 1905-03-30 — Haji Kalb-`Ali was shot and killed in Najafabad. [BW18:386]...
  108. 1906-06-00 — Baha'is in Sangsar, Khurasan, were persecuted such that they took refuge in the hills. [BW18:386]...
  109. 1906-10-00 — Several Baha'is in Sangsar and Shahmirzad were killed or injured by bullets; six Baha'is were arrest...
  110. 1907-00-00 — Hajar, an elderly Baha'i woman, was shot dead in Nayriz. [BW18:386]...
  111. 1907-04-25 — Karbala'i Sadiq was martyred in Tabriz. [BW18:386]...
  112. 1908-00-00 — `Ali Ádhari was martyred in Kirman. [BW18:386]...
  113. 1909-03-00 — The third upheaval in Nayriz. Eighteen or nineteen Baha'is were brutally assassinated in Nayriz whe...
  114. 1909-04-01 — Baha'is of Namiq, Khurasan, were attacked and Kad-khuda Isma'il was killed. [BW18:386]...
  115. 1909-04-22 — Three Baha'is are killed in Hisar, Khurasan, and their wives seriously injured. [BW18:386]...
  116. 1909-07-28 — Baha'is in Namiq, Khurasan, were killed. [BW18:386]...
  117. 1909-11-08 — Haji Haydar, a leading Baha'i of Najafabad, was shot and killed at Isfahan. [BBR432] BRXXX and BW...
  118. 1910-09-20 — Muhammad-Ja`far-i-Sabbagh was martyred at Najafabad. [BW18:387]...
  119. 1911-08-23 — 'Abdu'l-Baha went for a carriage ride in the nearby hills. ["With 'Abdu'l-Baha in Switzerland" by Ju
  120. 1911-08-28 — In the morning 'Abdu'l-Baha's visitor was Sultan-Husayn Mirza, the eldest son of Zillu's-Sultan. Bet...
  121. 1912-00-00 — Mirza Muhammad-`Ali and his wife were killed in Barfurúsh (now called Babol), Mazandaran. [BW18:387...
  122. 1912-01-03 — In Sari, Mazandaran, a mob attacked houses of Baha'is and four Baha'is were killed; a few days later...
  123. 1912-02-04 — Two Baha'is were killed in Mahfurúzak, Mazandaran. [BW18:387]...
  124. 1913-12-00 — Áqa Abu'l-Qasim-i-Isfandabadi was killed by two assailants in Qúzih-Kúh, Bavanat, Fars. [BW18:387...
  125. 1914-08-27 — Áqa Mirza Yúsif-i-Qa'ini was killed in Mashhad. [BW18:387]...
  126. 1915-00-03 — Mirza Husayn-i-Huda was martyred in Urúmiyyih. [BW18:387]...
  127. 1915-03-14 — Shaykh 'Ali Akbar-i-Qúchani was shot to death in Mashhad. Considerable anti-Baha'i agitation follow...
  128. 1916-02-22 — In Sultanabad, Mirza `Ali-Akbar, his wife, his sister-in-law (aged 12) and their four children (aged...
  129. 1916-07-28 — Mulla Nasru'llah-i-Shahmirzadi was martyred in his home in Shahmirzad, Khurasan. [BW18:387] ...
  130. 1917-02-17 — A mob in Najafabad disintered the bodies from two Baha'i graves. A general agitation against Baha'is...
  131. 1917-05-02 — The martyrdom of Mirza Muhammad-i-Bulúr-Furúsh in Yazd. [BBRXXX, BBR443]...
  132. 1918-03-15 — Áqa Mirza Javad, I`timadu't-Tujjar, was shot in Bandar Jaz and the houses of the Baha'is were loote...
  133. 1920-00-00 — Mirza Ibrahim Khan, Ibtihaju'l-Mulk, was martyred in Rasht at the hands of the Jangalis. [BW18:387] ...
  134. 1920-05-21 — The execution at Sultanabad of Haji `Arab by hanging. [BBRXXX, 444-6; BW18:387]...
  135. 1920-09-00 — The tombs of the King of Martyrs and the Beloved of Martyrs in Isfahan were demolished by a mob. [BB...
  136. 1920-10-02 — Mirza Mustafa was killed at Farúgh, Fars, and other Baha'is were imprisoned. [BW18:387] He was a...
  137. 1921-01-23 — Mirza Ya`qúb-i-Muttahidih was assassinated in Kirmanshah. [BBRXXX, 446-50; BW18:387; GPB299] H...
  138. 1921-07-00 — Baha'is of Zoroastrian background were harassed by the Zoroastrian agent in Qum. [BW18:388]...
  139. 1921-10-20 — Áqa Siyyid Mustafa Tabataba'i was poisoned in Sangsar. Continual agitation prevented the burial of ...
  140. 1924-03-09 — Two Baha'is were imprisoned for several months in Maraghih, Iran, after two mullas stirred up troubl...
  141. 1924-04-02 — Baha'is in Turbat-i-Haydari, Iran, were attacked; some were arrested and imprisoned and others were ...
  142. 1924-04-05 — Shaykh `Abdu'l-Majid was beaten to death in Turshiz, Khurasan, Iran. [BW18:388]...
  143. 1924-06-22 — Aqa Husayn-`Ali was martyred in Firúzabad, Fars, Iran. [BW18:388]...
  144. 1924-07-18 — American Vice-Consul Major Robert Imbrie was murdered in Tihran for being a Baha'i, which he was not...
  145. 1926-04-07 — Eight or perhaps as many as twelve Baha'is were beaten to death in Jahrum, Fars, Iran. [BW18:388, SE...
  146. 1926-06-29 — Three Baha'is were martyred in Zavarih, near Isfahan. [BW18:388]...
  147. 1926-07-12 — The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States and Canada made representations ...
  148. 1926-08-06 — The Shah of Iran was asked to "stay the slaying of Baha'is." The Press notice of the appeal to the S...
  149. 1927-03-25 — Áqa 'Abdu'l-'A'zim, Aminu'l-'Ulama' was martyred in Ardibil, Iran, by the order of the mujtahid. [B...
  150. 1927-06-19 — Karbala'i Asadu'llah-i-Saqat-furúsh was martyred in Kirman, Iran. [BW18:388]...
  151. 1932-00-00 — The Iranian government introduced measures against the Baha'is throughout Iran. Restrictions were pl...
  152. 1932-06-10 — The American National Spiritual Assembly addresseed a petition to the Shah of Iran requesting that t...
  153. 1932-08-15 — Keith Ransom-Kehler met the Iranian Court Minister Taymur Tash. [BW5:392] She presented the Ameri...
  154. 1933-00-01 — Baha'is in Gulpaygan, Iran, were refused admission to the public baths. Shaykh Ja'far Hidayat was be...
  155. 1933-00-02 — The Tavakkul Baha'i School in Qazvin, Iran, was closed. [BW18:388]...
  156. 1934-00-04 — The government of Iran took several measures against the Baha'is throughout the country. [...
  157. 1934-12-06 — The Tarbiyat Baha'i Schools in Tihran and all other Baha'i schools across the country were closed by...
  158. 1935-00-02 — The persecution against the Baha'is in Iran continued. [...
  159. 1936-06-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued. [...
  160. 1937-00-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is in Iran continued throughout the country. [...
  161. 1937-05-01 — Several prominent Baha'is were arrested in Yazd. [BW18:389] They were imprisoned in Tihran for fo...
  162. 1937-07-00 — Nine Baha'is were imprisoned in Sangsar, Khurasan, Iran, for closing their shops on Baha'i holy days...
  163. 1938-00-00 — Persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the country. [...
  164. 1941-01-00 — Nine Baha'is were arrested in Sangsar, Khurasan, Iran, and banished to other towns for closing their...
  165. 1941-09-16 — In Iran, Rida Shah abdicated and Muhammad-Rida Shah ascended to the throne. His rule was to last unt...
  166. 1941-10-18 — Four members of a Baha'i family were killed and several other family members were severely beaten in...
  167. 1942-00-00 — The House of the Bab in Shiraz was attacked and damaged by fire. [BBD108; ...
  168. 1942-00-00 — The publication in Iran of The Political Confessions or Memoirs of Prince Dolgoruki (or, simply, Dol...
  169. 1942-02-13 — Ustad Habibu'llah Mu'ammari was martyred in Nayriz, Iran. [BW18:389]...
  170. 1944-05-12 — Baha'is were persecuted at Ábadih, Iran. The Baha'i centre was attacked by a mob of four thousand, ...
  171. 1944-08-08 — Three Baha'is were murdered in Shahrúd, Iran, after three weeks of anti-Baha'i agitation. Many Baha...
  172. 1944-09-00 — Following the murder of Baha'is at Shahrúd, Iran, and the widespread publicity on the outcome of th...
  173. 1945-00-00 — Baha'is throughout Iran were dismissed from National Teacher Training Colleges by the National Board...
  174. 1947-07-04 — 'Abbas Shahidzadih was martyred in Shahi, Mazandaran, Iran and a fellow Baha'i, Habib Allah Hushmand
  175. 1948-00-00 — The Baha'i Centre in Yazd, Iran, was attacked by a mob incited by Shaykh Khalisizadih. He was a man ...
  176. 1948-00-05 — The Baha'i centre in Tihran was attacked by a mob incited by Áyatu'llah Kashani. [...
  177. 1948-00-07 — A Baha'i was killed after an attack on his home at Chalih-Zamin, Iran. [...
  178. 1948-01-11 — Habibu'llah Húshmand was martyred in Sarvistan, Iran. [BW18:390]...
  179. 1949-02-04 — There was an attempt on the life of the Shah during a ceremony commemorating the founding of Tehran ...
  180. 1950-00-00 — In Iran, the Hujjatiyya Society was started by Shaykh Mahmúd Halabi to persecute and harass the Bah...
  181. 1950-00-00 — Ghulam Reza Akhzari and his son Nur Allah were killed near Yazd and Bahram Rawhani was murdered in T...
  182. 1950-02-03 — Dr Sulayman Birgis was martyred in Kashan, Iran. [BW18:390] For his obituary see BW12:684–5. ...
  183. 1950-09-00 — Four Baha'is in Iran were arrested on trumped-up charges. The trial lasted until 1954, when the accu...
  184. 1951-00-02 — Muhammad Kayvani was murdered in Najafabad. [...
  185. 1951-00-04 — Throughout Iran, the government introduced repressive measures against Baha'is. [BW18:390] Baha'i...
  186. 1951-00-05 — Baha'is in Áran, Kashan, Iran, were attacked, and one died. [BW18:390]...
  187. 1951-03-12 — Baha'is in Taft, Iran, were attacked and one was killed. [BW18:390]...
  188. 1951-06-00 — Baha'is in Faran, Iran, were attacked and several houses burned. [BW18:390]...
  189. 1952-00-03 — Baha'is and their homes were attacked in Najafabad, Iran, and several houses were set on fire. [BW18...
  190. 1952-08-26 — The martyrdom of Nuri'd-Din Fath-'Azam near Tehran. [BW12p690-692]...
  191. 1953-00-00 — Baha'is and their houses were attacked in Bushrúyih and Faran, Iran. [BW18:390]...
  192. 1953-00-00 — Áqa Rahman Kulayni-Mamaqani was martyred in Durúd, Iran. [BW18:390]...
  193. 1953-00-00 — Anjoman-e Hojjatieh ("Society of Allah's Proof Over Creation"), also called the Hojjatieh Society wa...
  194. 1953-09-26 — The martyrdom of Rahman Kulayni Mamaqani. He was stabbed by a ruffian in a mob. [BW12p710-711]...
  195. 1955-01-18 — Five Baha'is were arrested and beaten in Hisar, Khurasan, Iran; four of these are dragged around the...
  196. 1955-02-04 — Baha'i women in Hisar, Khurasan, Iran, were assaulted. [BW18:390]...
  197. 1955-04-18 — After the violent storm of persecutions against the Baha'i's in Iran broke loose, the Baha'i Interna...
  198. 1955-04-23 — Ramadan began. Shaykh Muhammad-Taqi known as "Falsafi" made an inflammatory speech against the Baha'...
  199. 1955-05-00 — Persecutions against the Baha'is continued throughout Iran. [...
  200. 1955-05-02 — The police locked the doors of the National Baha'i Centre in Tihran thus preventing the holding of t...
  201. 1955-05-07 — The Iranian army occupied the National Baha'i Centre in Tihran. [BW18:390]...
  202. 1955-05-08 — Baha'is were beaten at Damghan, Khurasan, Iran. [BW18:390]...
  203. 1955-05-08 — The Baha'i centre at Rasht, Iran, was attacked and taken over. [BW18:390]...
  204. 1955-05-09 — Baha'i houses were attacked and looted at Shiraz, Iran. [BW18:390]...
  205. 1955-05-09 — The Baha'i centre at Ahvaz, Iran, was taken over. [BW18:390]...
  206. 1955-05-16 — The Baha'i centre at Isfahan, Iran, was taken over. [BW18:390]...
  207. 1955-05-17 — The Iranian Minister of the Interior announced in parliament that the Government had issued orders f...
  208. 1955-05-22 — The dome of the National Baha'i Centre in Tihran was demolished with the personal participation of s...
  209. 1955-05-24 — The Baha'i centre at Karaj, Iran, was taken over. [...
  210. 1955-05-27 — The Baha'i centre at Mahfurúzak, Iran, was demolished. [...
  211. 1955-05-30 — Baha'is were attacked and wounded and their houses attacked at Ábadih, Iran. [...
  212. 1955-06-01 — The House of Baha'u'llah in Takur, Mazandaran, Iran, was taken over. [...
  213. 1955-06-03 — Shoghi Effendi announced that a thousand groups and local Assemblies telegraphed appeals to the Iran...
  214. 1955-07-28 — Seven Baha'is were stabbed and beaten to death by a mob in Hurmuzak, Iran. [...
  215. 1955-08-00 — Appeals were made by National Spiritual Assemblies around the world through the Baha'i International...
  216. 1955-09-00 — Baha'is in Iran continued to be dismissed from their employment. Baha'i students were expelled from ...
  217. 1956-07-21 — As a result of the intervention of the UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold in July of 1955, promis...
  218. 1957-07-18 — It was reported in the Canadian Baha'i News, based on the Guardian's message of the 18th of July, th...
  219. 1963-00-01 — 15 years after the establishment of Israel and during the course of the unrest that swept through Ir...
  220. 1963-06-05 — Throughout Iran, advantage is taken of the general anti-government disorder to launch attacks on Bah...
  221. 1968-00-00 — Throughout Iran, pressure on Baha'is intensified. [...
  222. 1975-00-00 — Following the creation of the Rastakhiz political party by the Shah of Iran and the refusal of the B...
  223. 1975-11-01 — In Iran, the house of the maternal uncle of the Bab and the adjacent house in which the Bab was born...
  224. 1977-05-14 — The house of a Baha'i in Fadilabad, Iran, was attacked; the Baha'i was killed and his sister severel...
  225. 1978-00-00 — Ten Baha'is were killed in Iran, seven by mobs. [BW18:291] For the response of Baha'i institution...
  226. 1978-00-00 — In Iran, many local Baha'i centres were seized by armed men of the revolutionary committees, along w...
  227. 1978-10-01 — Three hundred Baha'i homes near Shiraz were burned or destroyed and in another 200 homes the Baha'is...
  228. 1978-12-03 — Baha'i homes in Andarún, Iran, were besieged; one Baha'i was badly beaten. [BW18:275–6]...
  229. 1978-12-15 — A cabled message was sent to 93 national spiritual assemblies stating that the Baha'is in Iran and t...
  230. 1979-00-00 — After the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the persecution of Baha'is significantly intensified due ...
  231. 1979-00-00 — Five Baha'is were killed in Iran, two by execution. [BW18:291] For the response of Baha'i institu...
  232. 1979-00-00 — The Siyah-Chal in Tihran and the houses of Quddús and Hujjat were seized and occupied by members of...
  233. 1979-00-00 — Baha'i cemeteries across Iran were confiscated, including the cemetery in Tihran, which contains the...
  234. 1979-00-00 — The House of Baha'u'llah in Tihran was confiscated by the revolutionary government of Iran. [BW17:79...
  235. 1979-01-12 — Baha'i members of the Sadat-Mahmúdi clan of the Buyr-Ahmad tribe of central Iran were driven from t...
  236. 1979-02-00 — In Iran, Baha'i representatives met with high-ranking clergy in Shiraz, Qum and Mashhad to combat th...
  237. 1979-02-02 — A mob of some 5,000 armed with hatchets, spades and pickaxes converged on Hisar, Iran, intent on har...
  238. 1979-02-03 — Revolutionary Guards raided the offices of Nawnahalan, a Baha'i investment company, and the Umana' C...
  239. 1979-02-15 — The National Haziratu'l-Quds of Iran was seized by the Revolutionary Guards. [BW18:250] All the r...
  240. 1979-03-01 — Yúsif Subhani, a well-known Baha'i businessman, was imprisoned in Tihran. [BW18:278]...
  241. 1979-03-30 — The House of Baha'u'llah in Takur, Iran, was confiscated by the Revolutionary Government. [BW18:289]...
  242. 1979-04-03 — Revolutionary Guards in Iran occupied the House of the Bab in Shiraz and neighbouring Baha'i propert...
  243. 1979-05-24 — Shaykh Muhammad Muvahhid, a well-known Baha'i, was kidnapped in Tihran. [BW18:254, 294]...
  244. 1979-06-21 — In Iran, the offices of Nawnahalan and the Umana' Corporation were taken over by Revolutionary Guard...
  245. 1979-08-21 — The arrest of the nine members of the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran by an unknown armed group ...
  246. 1979-09-00 — Bahar Vujdani was executed in Mahabad, Iran. [BW18:255]...
  247. 1979-09-01 — Revolutionary committees in Shahsavar, 'Ábadan and Tabriz, Iran, ordered the arrest of Baha'is. [BW...
  248. 1979-09-08 — The House of the Bab in Shiraz was attacked and substantially demolished by a crowd accompanied by 2...
  249. 1979-10-01 — In Iran, Baha'is in the ministries of education, health and social administration were dismissed fro...
  250. 1979-11-00 — Baha'i meetings were prohibited in Shasavar, Iran. [BW18:255]...
  251. 1979-11-11 — Dr 'Alimurad Davúdi, a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran, was kidnapped in Tihran a...
  252. 1979-11-11 — Starting just months after the revolution, seven members of the National Spiritual Assembly of the B...
  253. 1979-11-21 — The assets of three smaller institutions owned by the Baha'i community, the Vahhaj, Matla and Huqúq...
  254. 1979-12-00 — Work on the demolition of the House of the Bab in Shiraz was resumed and the building almost razed t...
  255. 1979-12-02 — 'Azamatu'llah Fahandizh was executed in Tihran. [BW18:255]
  256. 1979-12-03 — The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, from which all civil rights stem and which did not...
  257. 1980-00-03 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW18:92] Twenty–four Bah...
  258. 1980-02-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is in Iran entered a new, more dangerous phase. [BW18:255] Prominent ...
  259. 1980-02-10 — Message from the Universal House of Justice addressed to the Baha'is of Iran and Iranian believers r...
  260. 1980-04-00 — Eight Baha'is were arrested in Tabriz; five were released after signing an agreement not to take par...
  261. 1980-06-10 — The martyrdom of Yúsuf Subhani in Ivin Prison in Tehran. For an account of his execution and the ev...
  262. 1980-07-13 — The execution by firing squad of Dr. Faramarz Samandari as well as another Baha'i by the name of Yad...
  263. 1980-07-14 — Two of the Baha'is arrested in Tabriz in April were executed. [BW18:256]...
  264. 1980-08-21 — The members of the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran were arrested along with two colleagues. They...
  265. 1980-09-00 — The European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the United Nations ...
  266. 1980-12-00 — Professor Manouchehr Hakim, who, at one time was the head of the Misaghieh Hospital, was shot and ki...
  267. 1981-00-03 — The site of the House of the Bab, destroyed by a mob in 1979, was made into a road and public square...
  268. 1981-00-05 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW18:92] Forty–six Baha'...
  269. 1981-06-11 — All the title deeds, deeds of ownership and the plans [buildings] in various cities which were avail...
  270. 1981-06-14 — Seven members of the Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Hamadan were executed by firing squa...
  271. 1981-06-23 — Dr. Masih Farhangi had spent 502 days in the Evin Prison before his martyrdom by firing squad. For h...
  272. 1981-07-29 — See the story of the martyrdom of pharmacist Dr. Parviz Firouzi,. See the story of the martyrdom ...
  273. 1981-12-01 — The Baha'i International Community made its first appeal to the Commission on Human Rights to addres...
  274. 1981-12-05 — The Baha'i cemetery in Tehran was seized "by order of the Revolutionary Court". Five caretakers and ...
  275. 1981-12-10 — The Universal House of Justice announced that the House of Baha'u'llah in Takur, Núr, Iran, had bee...
  276. 1981-12-27 — Eight of the nine members of the replacement National Spiritual Assembly of Iran were executed. They...
  277. 1982-00-00 — Soon after the Islamic Revolution's victory in 1979, Baha'i cemeteries in various cities and village...
  278. 1982-00-03 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW18:92] Thirty–two Baha...
  279. 1982-01-04 — Seven members of the Local Spiritual Assembly of the Tehran were executed. They had been arrested o...
  280. 1982-01-04 — The martyrdom of Fatollah Ferdowsi. (See above) Interview with the author, Farsheed Ferdowsi on ...
  281. 1982-01-20 — Ayatollah Mohammadi Gilani, who at the time was lead religious judge and head of the Central Islamic...
  282. 1982-05-25 — The Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations of the Foreign Affairs Committee of...
  283. 1982-09-07 — The Revolutionary Prosecutor General, Seyyed Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi, banned all Baha'i community ac...
  284. 1982-10-23 — Authorities arrested 45 Baha'is in Shiraz on the order of the prosecutor. On October 30th another 40...
  285. 1982-10-23 — Akhtar Sabet was born into a Baha'i family. Her father owned a small shop and she assisted him while...
  286. 1983-00-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW18:92; BW19:177–226] T...
  287. 1983-00-06 — During its first decade in power, the Islamic regime openly persecuted and killed Baha'is. These per...
  288. 1983-06-16 — Six Baha'is were executed by hanging: Dr. Bahrarn Afnan, aged 50, a prominent physician specializi...
  289. 1983-06-18 — In Shiraz, ten Baha'i women ranging in age from 17 to 57, were hanged. All of the women had been tor...
  290. 1983-07-12 — The Hojjatiyeh society, also known as Hojjatieh or Hojjatiyeh Movement, was a religious and politica...
  291. 1983-08-23 — Seyyed Hussein Musavi Tabrizi, the Attorney General of Iran, declared all Baha'i administrative acti...
  292. 1983-08-29 — In Iran the Baha'i Faith was banned in Iran and membership of Baha'i institutions made a criminal of...
  293. 1983-09-03 — In response to the Iranian authorities banning all Baha'i administrative and community activities an...
  294. 1983-09-04 — All property and endowments owed by the Baha'i administration in Iran was seized. The acquisitio...
  295. 1984-00-03 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW19:177–226] Thirty Bah...
  296. 1984-12-00 — Dr. Ruhollah Taelim, a popular physician living in Kermanshah, was hanged in Tehran in 1984 at the a...
  297. 1985-00-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW19:177–226] Seven Baha...
  298. 1985-08-28 — Mr Rahmatu'llah Vujdani, a 57 year old teacher, was executed by firing squad in Bandar 'Abbas. He ...
  299. 1985-12-13 — For the first time, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on the human rights sit...
  300. 1986-00-00 — The persecution of the Baha'is of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW19:177–226] One Baha'i...
  301. 1986-00-00 — Iran's hugely unsuccessful attempt to convince the international community that Baha'is were indeed ...
  302. 1986-04-28 — In 2008, the Baha'i International Community published the names of 221 Iranian Baha'is who had been ...
  303. 1987-00-01 — Faced with unrelenting religious persecution involving a wide range of human rights violations, the ...
  304. 1987-09-23 — Three members of the Yaran-e Iran, Mr. Jamaluddin Khanjani, Mr. Hasan Mahboobi and Mr. Changeez Fan...
  305. 1988-07-26 — In the final phases of the Iran-Iraq war Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini felt that defeat was immin...
  306. 1988-07-26 — The paper, ‌Iranian Baha'is and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) was presented by Dr Kamali Sarvestan...
  307. 1988-12-08 — The plenary session of the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution concerning hu...
  308. 1989-03-09 — The Commission on Human Rights adopted a resolution expressing grave concern at human rights violati...
  309. 1989-04-04 — The Universal House of Justice announced a vast majority of prisoners that had been held by authorit...
  310. 1990-05-00 — The US Senate unanimously adopted a concurrent resolution condemning Iran's continued repression of ...
  311. 1991-02-25 — In Iran, a secret government memorandum (known as the Golpaygani Memorandum) was drawn up by Iran's ...
  312. 1992-03-18 — The martyrdom of Mr. Bahman Samandari in the Evin prison in Tehran. Mr. Samandari was executed with ...
  313. 1993-01-00 — Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, the United Nations' special representative in charge of monitoring the human ...
  314. 1993-06-00 — The bodies of Baha'is buried in the Baha'i section of a Tihran cemetery were exhumed and taken by lo...
  315. 1993-07-00 — A section of the Baha'i cemetery in Tihran was bulldozed to make way for the construction of an Isla...
  316. 1993-12-08 — In Iran, death sentences were pronounced against two Baha'is on the grounds of their membership in t...
  317. 1994-11-01 — The publication of Olya's Story: A Survivor's Dramatic Account of the Persecution of Baha'is in Revo...
  318. 1995-00-00 — The publication of Desinformation als Methode by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh and Ulrich Gollmer. T...
  319. 1995-09-00 — The arrest and imprisonment of Mr. Zabihullah Mahrami in Yazd because of his adherence to the Baha'i...
  320. 1997-07-04 — Masha'llah Enayati, a 63-year-old man, died in custody while in prison in Isfahan after being severe...
  321. 1997-07-06 — Shahram Reza'i, a conscript in the army, was shot in the head by his superior officer at a military ...
  322. 1998-02-01 — The Baha'i Open University resumed activities after the seizure of much of their assets four months ...
  323. 1998-07-21 — Mr. Ruhu'llah Rawhani, a 52-year-old medical supplies salesman was hanged in Mashhad solely for reli...
  324. 1998-09-29 — Starting this date until October 2nd, in Iran, the government raided some 500 private homes and the ...
  325. 1999-04-19 — The Islamic Revolutionary Court in Isfahan sentenced Sina Hakiman (10 yrs), Farzad Khajeh Sharifabad...
  326. 2000-02-17 — Iran's Supreme Court rejected death sentences imposed upon Sirus Zabihi-Moghadam, Hadayet Kashefi-Ma...
  327. 2004-02-00 — In Babul, Iran, the destruction of the gravesite of Quddús, a house-like structure that marked the ...
  328. 2004-02-07 — The release of Mr. Bihnam Mithaqi and Mr. Kayvan Khalajabadi who had been imprisoned on April 29, 19...
  329. 2004-04-00 — The completion of the destruction of the gravesite of Mulla Muhammad-'Ali Barfurushi, known as Quddu...
  330. 2004-06-20 — By order of Ayatollah Kani, director of the Marvi School and the Endowments Office, destruction of...
  331. 2005-00-02 — The official campaign to malign the name of the Faith in Iran through the mass media, newspaper arti...
  332. 2005-10-29 — Letter from the Iranian military headquarters to various Revolutionary Guard and police forces and s...
  333. 2005-12-15 — The death of Mr. Dhabihu'llah Mahrami, 59, who had been held in a government prison in Yazd under ha...
  334. 2006-00-00 — For more than two decades young Baha'is had been barred from entering university through an applicat...
  335. 2006-05-02 — Letter, from the Trades, Production, and Technical Services Society of Kermanshah to the Iranian Uni...
  336. 2006-05-19 — Iranian security officials arrested 54 Baha'is in the city of Shiraz who were involved in a communit...
  337. 2006-08-19 — Iran's Ministry of Interior ordered officials throughout the country to step up the surveillance of ...
  338. 2006-12-00 — The publication of A Faith Denied: The Persecution of the Baha'is of Iran by the Iran Human Rights D...
  339. 2006-12-22 — The Education Department Management Security Office in Shiraz circulated a form to be completed by a...
  340. 2007-00-00 — This increase in the activities of the Yaran-e Iran mandated the addition of more members; as a resu...
  341. 2007-04-09 — In a memorandum from the office of Intelligence and National Security to the commanders of police fo...
  342. 2007-05-18 — A letter marked "Confidential" was sent from the academic counseling and higher education office at ...
  343. 2007-09-09 — A Baha'i cemetery near Najafabad, Iran was destroyed using heavy equipment. More than 100 graves wer...
  344. 2007-09-09 — In its message to the Baha'i students deprived of access to higher education in Iran of the 9th of S...
  345. 2007-10-02 — An event was organized by the Defenders of Human Rights Centre in Iran to publicize the plight of al...
  346. 2007-11-21 — The Universal House of Justice responded to a communications from the Baha'is attending event of th...
  347. 2008-03-05 — Mahvash Sabet – a schoolteacher and mother of two and a member of the national-level administrativ...
  348. 2008-05-14 — The six men and a women, Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, Mr. Afif Naeimi, Mr. Saeid Rezaie, Mr. Behrouz Tav...
  349. 2008-05-14 — Iranian Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri issued a fatwa stating that, since (Baha'is) were the ...
  350. 2008-05-15 — The arrest of the Baha'i leadership took place in the context of a severely and rapidly escalating s...
  351. 2008-06-00 — In a show of solidarity for the imprisoned Yaran, an open letter was sent from a number of members o...
  352. 2008-06-03 — Mrs. Mahvash Sabet and Mrs. Fariba Kamalabadi were permitted to make short phone calls to their fami...
  353. 2008-07-27 — The results of the nationwide university entrance examination were made available on the National Or...
  354. 2008-09-00 — After enduring 3.5 months of solitary confinement, the imprisoned members of the Yaran were transfer...
  355. 2008-10-31 — The Universal House of Justice sent a message of encouragement to the besieged Baha'i Community of I...
  356. 2008-11-00 — Ameed Saadat sat Iran's 2008 national university entrance examination. He passed was accepted to stu...
  357. 2009-00-00 — Over 200 articles appeared in the Iranian newspaper Kayhan* in the years 2007-2009 that attacked eve...
  358. 2009-02-03 — The publication of "We are Ashamed," an open letter from a group of academics, writers, artists, jou...
  359. 2009-02-11 — An Iranian ISNA news agency report quoting Tehran's deputy public prosecutor, Hassan Haddad, reporte...
  360. 2009-02-15 — The US House of Representatives introduced a resolution condemning the government of Iran for its st...
  361. 2009-02-16 — Iran's Prosecutor General Qorban-Ali Dorri-Najafabadi made the claim that the members of the "banned...
  362. 2009-02-24 — The Canadian Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Human Rights adopted a strongly worded motion demanding ...
  363. 2009-02-25 — The seven imprisoned Baha'i leaders were given permission to meet with their families. [Iran Press W...
  364. 2009-02-25 — The European Union expressed their concerns that, after being held for so long without due process, ...
  365. 2009-02-27 — Responding to the public outcry from western nations against Iran for the plight of seven imprisoned...
  366. 2009-03-00 — The Yaran decided that, as a measure of goodwill, to disband all Baha'i organizations in Iran. This...
  367. 2009-03-04 — The Baha'i International Community at the United Nations sent an open letter to Ayatollah Qorban-Ali...
  368. 2009-03-30 — The first meeting of the imprisoned Yaran with their families took place and was in person. It is c...
  369. 2009-05-11 — After a year in jail without formal charges the Baha'i leaders faced an additional accusation, 'the ...
  370. 2009-07-10 — Iranian officials told the families of the seven Baha'i leaders being held in Evin prison in Tehran ...
  371. 2009-08-17 — The trial of seven Baha'i leaders imprisoned in Iran was further postponed until 18 October. [B...
  372. 2009-10-18 — Attorneys and families of the seven arrived at court in Tehran for the trial to be told that it woul...
  373. 2010-01-12 — The trial of Iran's seven Baha'i leaders, Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid...
  374. 2010-02-01 — On February 1st, 2010, Iran's Channel 3 began to air a series named "Saalhaaye Mashrooteh," which co...
  375. 2010-02-07 — Seven imprisoned Baha'i leaders appeared in court for a second session of their trial. The sessio...
  376. 2010-04-12 — The seven imprisoned Iranian Baha'i leaders arrived at the court for their third appearance and the
  377. 2010-05-10 — New information was obtained regarding the conditions in which the seven Baha'i prisoners were being...
  378. 2010-06-12 — The seven Baha'i leaders imprisoned for more than two years in Iran made their fourth court appearan...
  379. 2010-06-28 — Homes belonging to some 50 Baha'i families in the remote village of Ivel in northern Iran have been ...
  380. 2010-07-24 — The imprisonment of seven Baha'i leaders in Iran was extended for a further two months after the law...
  381. 2010-08-08 — The sentence of 20 years in prison was announced for members of the "Yaran-i-Iran" or "Friends of Ir...
  382. 2010-09-04 — A prominent human rights lawyer in Iran, Nasrin Sotoudeh, was detained by the authorities on charges...
  383. 2010-09-15 — In the face of the chorus of condemnation from governments and human rights organizations around the...
  384. 2010-09-16 — Following the reduction of his sentence, Vahid Tizfahm was transferred to Rajai-Shahr prison, where ...
  385. 2010-12-07 — In an open letter to Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq Larijani, the Head of the Judiciary, the Baha'i Intern...
  386. 2011-03-24 — The UN Human Rights Council voted to create a Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Ir...
  387. 2011-03-30 — Six months after Iran's Appeal Court reduced their sentences from 20 to 10 years, the seven Baha'i l...
  388. 2011-05-00 — Some 39 homes of Baha'is associated with the Baha'i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) were raide...
  389. 2011-05-20 — Fariba Kamalabadi and Mahvash Sabet were returned to Evin Prison in Tehran. They had spent a brief t...
  390. 2012-02-24 — The inaugural screening of Iranian Taboo by Dutch-Iranian filmmaker Reza Allamehzadeh in Los Angeles...
  391. 2012-05-11 — The Universal House of Justice sent a message to the Baha'is of Iran near the four-year anniversary ...
  392. 2012-10-29 — The Baha'i International Community published a special report on The Baha'is of Semnan: A Case Study...
  393. 2013-03-00 — The publication of the report entitled Violence with Impunity: Acts of Aggression Against Iran's Bah...
  394. 2013-05-14 — The Baha'i International Community launched the Five Years Too Many campaign to protest the 20-year ...
  395. 2013-07-15 — Iranian filmmaker and blogger as well as a former Islamist hardliner who has become an outspoken cri...
  396. 2013-08-24 — Mr. Ataollah Rezvani, a well-known Baha'i in the city of Bandar Abbas disappeared and the next day t...
  397. 2013-10-28 — The release of the video Violence with Impunity: Acts of Aggression Against Iran's Baha'i Community ...
  398. 2013-12-00 — The imprisoned members of the Yaran sent a letter addressed to Iranian President, Dr. Hassan Rouhani...
  399. 2014-00-00 — The release of the film To Light a Candle produced by Maziar Bahari which expo...
  400. 2014-04-00 — In Shiraz, the Revolutionary Guard began excavation of some 200 square meters of the Baha'i cemetery...
  401. 2014-05-07 — The imprisoned Yaran addressed a letter to Mohammad Javad Larijani, the head of Human Rights Divisio...
  402. 2014-05-08 — Despite a worldwide outcry, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards continued destroying an historic Baha'i...
  403. 2014-05-09 — Vahid Tizfahm, a former member of the imprisoned Yaran, wrote to his son, Samim, in which he recount...
  404. 2014-09-00 — The exclusion of Shadan Shirazi, an exemplary student who placed exceptionally well in the college e...
  405. 2014-11-00 — Fariba Kamalabadi, after having her fourth request to join her daughter Taraneh for her wedding deni...
  406. 2015-02-27 — The premiere of the film To Light a Candle by Iranian-Canadian filmmaker and journalist, Maziar Maha...
  407. 2015-05-14 — A global campaign called "Seven Days in Remembrance of Seven Years in Prison for the Seven Baha'i Le...
  408. 2015-07-24 — The Qom Seminary* announced the planning of classes called "Understanding Baha'ism" and "Understandi...
  409. 2015-08-26 — See Iran Press Watch for an article entitled Shi'ite Clerics and The "Problem" of Baha'ism for an i...
  410. 2015-11-16 — The arrest and disappearance of Navid Aqdasi, a cousin of 'Ata'ollah Rezvani who was murdered on the...
  411. 2015-12-21 — Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani, a senior Muslim cleric in Iran, had courageously called on hi...
  412. 2016-00-00 — The Islamic Republic of Iran has been responsible for the deaths of at least 225 Baha'is since its e...
  413. 2016-04-29 — In observance of the eighth anniversary of the arrest and incarceration of seven Iranian Baha'i lead...
  414. 2016-05-12 — In commemoration of the incarceration of the Yaran in Iran in 2008 the International Baha'i Communit...
  415. 2016-05-13 — Fariba Kamalabadi, while on a five-day furlough from Evin Prison, met with former Tehran MP Faezeh H...
  416. 2016-09-06 — In a letter the BIC called on Iranian President Rouhani to end systematic ...
  417. 2016-09-26 — The murder of Farhang Amiri in Yazd. [BWNS1133; Arch...
  418. 2016-10-26 — The report from the offices of the Baha'i International Community entitled The Baha'i Question Revis...
  419. 2016-11-24 — From her cell in Evin prison, In a open letter to her six-month old granddaughter, Bajar, Fariba Kam...
  420. 2017-01-07 — The body of Ahmad Fanaiyan was found with numerous burns all over his body in Semnan, Semnan Provinc...
  421. 2017-05-05 — The film Changing the World, One Wall at a Time was premiered in Harlem on the 5th of May and in Los...
  422. 2017-05-12 — The Baha'i International Community launched a global campaign calling for the immediate release of t...
  423. 2017-07-15 — The men who admitted to stabbing and killing Farhang Amiri, a 63-year-old father of four children, i...
  424. 2017-08-01 — The release of the film The Cost of Discrimination by Arash Azizi and Maziar Bahari which compared t...
  425. 2017-09-19 — Mahvash Sabet, one of the seven members of the former leadership group of the Baha'is in Iran known ...
  426. 2017-10-18 — The Iranian Baha'i community was targeted during the bicentenary period. Between 18 and 21 October, ...
  427. 2017-10-23 — Yemeni security forces raided a Baha'i gathering in Sana'a opening fire on the small group of people...
  428. 2017-10-31 — Fariba Kamalabadi, a member of the former leadership group of the Baha'is called the "Yaran", conclu...
  429. 2017-11-04 — Three young Iranians who complained to state officials after being denied university entrance for be...
  430. 2017-11-17 — A committee of the United Nations General Assembly condemned Iran by a vote of 83 to 30 with 68 abst...
  431. 2017-12-05 — The release of Behrooz Tavakkoli, 66, from prison after serving a 10-year term. He was the third me...
  432. 2018-00-00 — The Baha'i International Community established a web site, Archives of Baha'i Persecution in Iran to...
  433. 2018-02-00 — Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), an NGO working to promote the right to freedom of religion or ...
  434. 2018-02-16 — The release of Saeid Rezaie, one of the seven members of the Yaran, the former leadership group of t...
  435. 2018-02-18 — In an open letter, twenty-five prominent international lawyers and human right activists appe...
  436. 2018-02-20 — Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, a former member of the Yaran, was transferred from Evin Prison to a hospita...
  437. 2018-03-16 — Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, at 85 the oldest member of the Yaran to be imprisoned, was released after s...
  438. 2018-03-19 — The release of Mr. Vahid Tizfahm from the Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj after having completed his 10...
  439. 2018-04-23 — Afif Naeimi, the seventh and last imprisoned member of the Yaran, returned to Rajaee Shahr Prison (a...
  440. 2018-05-09 — The premiere of the film The Gate: Dawn of the Baha'i Faith in Los Angeles. The first ever documenta...
  441. 2018-06-13 — Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested on charges of collusion and propaganda against Iran's rulers. [...
  442. 2018-12-20 — The last imprisoned member of the former leadership body of the Baha'i community in Iran was release...
  443. 2019-02-07 — An estimated 5,760 members of the Baha'i Faith had been charged (and some even executed) for 'membe...
  444. 2019-02-28 — Faruq Izadinia, Baha'i scholar and translator, wrote an Open Letter after his court hearing in Tehra...
  445. 2019-07-20 — The social media platform Twitter suspended several accounts linked to Iranian state media—includi...
  446. 2019-12-19 — The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated for sanctions...
  447. 2019-12-31 — Baha'i Communities in a number of countries experienced persecution during 2019: In Egypt where i...
  448. 2020-01-27 — The Baha'i International Community expressed its concern with the surge in persecution by the Irania...
  449. 2020-04-11 — The Iranian government released a number of prisoners of conscience in the country as a result of he...
  450. 2020-04-28 — The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is an independent, bipartisan federa...
  451. 2020-06-00 — The Baha'i community in Iran experienced increased pressures since the COVID-19 epidemic began in Ir...
  452. 2020-06-08 — In a report by the Baha'i International Community about the intensification of persecution in Iran, ...
  453. 2020-09-21 — The German news agency DW obtained a leaked document that appeared to be the minutes of a meeting th...
  454. 2020-10-01 — The release of the documentary film Nasrin, about the Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, i...
  455. 2020-10-13 — The Mazandaran Court of Appeal, in northern Iran, validated the expropriation of 27 Baha'i farming f...
  456. 2020-11-18 — The United Nations General Assembly had passed a resolution condemning human rights violations in Ir...
  457. 2020-11-22 — Over a hundred government agents raided the shops and homes of tens of Baha'is across Iran, on 22 No...
  458. 2020-11-29 — The paintings of Maryam Safajoo depict the many forms of persecution faced by the Baha'is of Iran. S...
  459. 2020-12-16 — The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution expressing "serious concern about ongoing severe lim...
  460. 2021-01-29 — Mr Turaj Amini began serving his sentence at the Central Prison in Karaj, Mehrshahr, located about a...
  461. 2021-02-05 — More than 40 prominent members of Canada's legal community, including former Supreme Court judges an...
  462. 2021-03-09 — Javaid Rehman, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of...
  463. 2021-04-26 — It was reported that the murder case of Ata'u'llah Rezvani, a Baha'i citizen of Bandar Abbas, had be...
  464. 2021-06-08 — Tehran's Revolutionary Court sentenced Baha'i Iranian motocross champion Shahrzad Nazifi, a Baha'i c...
  465. 2021-07-08 — The Baha'i International Community made representation to the United Nations or the Iranian governme...
  466. 2021-07-13 — In response to the Iranian government's continued campaign of hate speech, the Baha'i International ...
  467. 2021-07-19 — A Twitter storm under the hashtag of #StopHatePropaganda and running from 5pm to 7pm GMT, 9.30pm to ...
  468. 2021-08-25 — The Baha'i International Community submitted formal letters of concern to United Nations Special Rap...
  469. 2021-12-05 — A three-day poster design workshop was held in Shiraz for the purpose of inciting hatred against Bah...
  470. 2021-12-16 — The United Nations (UN) General Assembly has called on the Iranian government to end its discriminat...
  471. 2022-03-11 — The release of the Report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Rights of pers...
  472. 2022-03-25 — In a statement was delivered by the Baha'i International Community's representative, Simin Fahandej,...
  473. 2022-04-20 — The International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance issued a statement noting "with grave concern...
  474. 2022-06-10 — A campaign by Iranian authorities to uproot the Baha'i community in Shiraz took a dark step forwar
  475. 2022-07-31 — The arrest of Mahvash Sabet (Shahriari) and Fariba Kamalabadi alongside five other Baha'i individual...
  476. 2022-11-21 — The sentencing of Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi in Revolutionary Court's Branch 26 in Tehran w...
  477. 2022-12-31 — HRANA's (Human Rights Activists News Agency) annual report in 2022 has highlighted a concerning tren...
  478. 2022-12-31 — For a review of the treatment of the Baha'is in Iran during the year see the US State Department's 2...
  479. 2023 08-05 — On July 31, 2022, the Ministry of Intelligence conducted a large-scale, systematic raid on the homes...
  480. 2023-03-08 — The publication of One More Mountain: Fleeing Iran for America by Mansur Nurel with Jeannette Monger...
  481. 2023-04-11 — After the trial, Fariba Kamalabadi, tried with Mahvash Sabet, was transferred to the women's ward fo...
  482. 2023-04-21 — More than 40 political, social and human rights activists inside and outside Iran, some from inside ...
  483. 2023-05-15 — The Baha'i International Community announced the launching a global campaign, called #OurStoryIsOne,...
  484. 2023-08-11 — The Tehran Court of Appeal maintained the original rulings against Baha'i citizens, Mahvash Sabet (S...
  485. 2023-08-13 — The arrest of Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, a 90-year-old Baha'i in failing health who had already served...
  486. 2023-12-04 — In a statement released by the Baha'i Community titled, A Change in Tactics: The Iranian Gove...
  487. 2024-04-01 — The publication of The Boot on My Neck: Iranian Authorities' Crime of Persecution Against Baha'is in...
  488. 2024-07-31 — The Special Rapporteurs working the field of cultural rights, the Working Group on Enforced or Invol...
  489. 2024-11-11 — The Baha'i International Community in New York announced the launching of a new publication titled O...

3.   from the Chronology of Canada (5 results; expand)

  1. 1980-07-13 — The execution by firing squad of Dr. Faramarz Samandari as well as another Baha'i by the name of Yad...
  2. 2009-02-24 — The Canadian Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Human Rights adopted a strongly worded motion demandin
  3. 2021-01-20 — The Canadian Council of Imams made a statement in protest the ruling issued by an Iranian Court to c...
  4. 2021-02-05 — More than 40 prominent members of Canada's legal community, including former Supreme Court judges an...
  5. 2022-02-22 — Tina Rouhandeh created a woven textile project using the ancient Iranian scribing practice of Mastar...
 
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