Bahai’s Living in Iran with No Human Rights
Iran Press Watch
22-Jan-2009 (3 comments)

Universal human rights are being trampled underfoot in the Islamic “Republic” of Iran. In particular, the Baha’is in Iran are regarded as people with no rights.

On 10 December, Human Rights Day, the organisation known as Human Rights Activists In Iran recalled a demonstration held in Tehran on 7 December 1953. At this demonstration, intended to show solidarity with the then prime minister Mossadegh, three Iranian students were shot dead: Shariat Razavi, Ghandchi and Bozorgnia. Since then, 7 December has been known as Student Day in Iran.

This year, too, several hundred students gathered in front of the main building of Tehran University. Their demands included the release of students from Iranian prisons and an end to discrimination against Iranian women.

State ban on education for Baha’is

On 7 December 2008, Human Rights Activists in Iran published a statement by two Baha’i students issued on behalf of all Baha’is not allowed to study in Iran. Navid Khanjani and Hesam Misaqi linked this statement to the events of 7 December 1953.

Today, 55 years later, many young Iranians are denied the right to university education. For more than 30 years, the Iranian Bahai’s have had no civil rights. Until 2004, they did not even have the right to sit the university admission exam. While it is true that a few have enrolled in the past few years, most of the... >>>

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Hamid Y. Javanbakht

Comparing Bahai and Judaism

by Hamid Y. Javanbakht on Thu Jan 29, 2009 01:33 PM PST

Decent analysis, doesn't allow much conceptual leeway to seeing past the 'contradictions', but one clear mistake was claim that Bahais believe their "Bab" or "Gate" was the "last" prophet. Bahai's state that every 1000 years a new prophet with a new religion will emerge, similar to Zoroastrianism. I respect Judaism greatly, but it's too bad they're unable to see past their differences with Islam and embrace a common faith, I don't blame the leadership for wanting their own path of course, it's merely a matter of putting aside the legalistic interpretations found in all faiths, and seeing them for what they were, guidelines to civilization.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=THVnObm0Nfs&feature=rec-HM-rn


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Bahai's!

by Immortal Guard! (not verified) on Sat Jan 24, 2009 09:34 AM PST

So today's little Bahai's are being punished for the treason of yesterday's big Bahai's.

Bahai children should apply at the University of Haifa!

And maybe Bahai parents should teach their children why during Shah's time they were so powerful in the government and now they are so shunned by the government.

My advice for the Bahai's: Since you are so internationalist then please learn Arabic and go live and work in Egypt, Jordan etc. They don't have any minorities like Bahai's in sufficient numbers.


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"Verily God doeth whatsoever

by scb (not verified) on Fri Jan 23, 2009 05:04 AM PST

"Verily God doeth whatsoever He willeth, and ordaineth whatsoever He pleaseth."
-Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 97.

The Baha'i Faith has demonstrated its ability to triumph over extreme persecution. Faith in God allows this against all odds. The peaceful stand of the Baha'is continues. Efforts to stamp out the Faith in Iran not only fail but are counterproductive (especially from the perspective of those who wish to suppress it). Efforts to dismay and otherwise humiliate the Baha'is only result in greater knowledge of the Faith all around the world.


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