Bahais

The Bahais are the largest religious minority in Iran, with about 300,000 members there.

Seven Iranians Charged With Spying for Israel - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

The Bahais are the largest religious minority in Iran, with about 300,000 members there.

Seven Iranians Charged With Spying for Israel - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

The Bahais are the largest religious minority in Iran, with about 300,000 members there.

Seven Iranians Charged With Spying for Israel - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

The Bahais are the largest religious minority in Iran, with about 300,000 members there.

Seven Iranians Charged With Spying for Israel - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

But it is an established facts that the Bahais are the well-wishers of the nation and the government; are showing forth obedience and displaying good intentions; are not interfering in political matters; are engaged in the education and spiritualization of characters and are occupied with the training of the ignorant ones.

Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882

One measure was to deny Bahais entry to universities, thereby impoverishing them intellectually and economically.

Iran's Outcast Religion Firuz Kazemzadeh 2011

That year, demonstrators on the streets of Tehran shouted slogans supporting religious minorities, including Bahais.

Iran's Outcast Religion Firuz Kazemzadeh 2011

The rights of Iran's Bahais cannot be separated from the human rights of the general population.

Iran's Outcast Religion Firuz Kazemzadeh 2011

While many Iranian citizens are targets of repression by the current regime, the treatment of Bahais, the country's largest non-Muslim religious community, is a special case.

Iran's Outcast Religion Firuz Kazemzadeh 2011

Bahais have faced persecution in Iran since their religion was founded more than a century and a half ago, but it was never as systematic as in the last 30 years.

Iran's Outcast Religion Firuz Kazemzadeh 2011