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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 435

Baha'i

Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Nasser Kanaani speaks during a press conference in the capital Tehran on December 5, 2022. (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP)
July 24, 2024, 3:22 pm
Iran condemns UN expert report on 1980s ‘atrocity crimes’
Iranian spokesman says detailed report by special rapporteur Javaid Rehman, alleging ‘crimes against humanity of murder and extermination as well as genocide,’ is ‘fake news’
By AFP
The newly renovated Bahai Shrine of the Bab is seen in Haifa, April 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
March 22, 2024, 4:17 pm
In Iran, Baha’i minority faces persecution even after death
Grave desecrations represent a new attack against Iran’s biggest non-Muslim religious minority
By Stuart Williams
Illustrative: The Baha'i Gardens, in Haifa, March 30, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
August 16, 2023, 8:48 am
Iran arrests dozens of Baha’is, including 90-year-old, in fresh crackdown
Advocacy group says recent weeks have seen 180 incidents of persecution against members of faith, which is shunned in Islamic Republic
By AFP
Illustrative: Iranian police in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
August 14, 2023, 12:02 pm
Iran arrests 9 members of Baha’i faith on smuggling charges
Group is shunned in Islamic Republic, which persecutes its members; officials say suspects were smuggling medicine, laundering money
By AP
Illustrative: Members of the Baha'i faith protest outside a state security court during a hearing in the case of a fellow Baha'i man suspected of contacts with Israel and charged with seeking to establish a base for the community in Yemen, in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, April 3, 2016. (AP/Hani Mohammed)
December 12, 2022, 6:08 am
Iran throws leading Bahai activists back in jail for 10 years each
Few details on national security charges against two women representing faith regularly accused of spying for Israel; sentences handed down after 1-hour trial, community says
By AFP
View of the Bahai gardens, located on Mount Carmel, in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. (Mendy Hechtman/FLASH90)
September 4, 2022, 8:15 am
Iran claims arrested Baha’i members were spying for Israel
Officials says two of 14 detainees were trained at Baha’i center in Haifa, formed network in region; religious group says they were studying social causes
By ToI Staff
The Bahai shrine in the religion's Haifa-based world center. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
September 3, 2022, 10:07 am
Iran said to arrest 14 more Baha’i as part of recent crackdown
Group says the members of the religious minority were detained while ‘studying and discussing together the role of education in social progress’
By ToI Staff
A home the Baha'i International Community says was destroyed by Iranian authorities seen in footage released on August 3, 2022. (Screenshot)
August 25, 2022, 1:05 pm
Amnesty: Iran carrying out ‘despicable onslaught’ against Baha’i minority
Intelligence authorities regularly arrest adherents and confiscate property; Iran says some Baha’is engage in espionage on behalf of Israel
By Ash Obel
A home the Baha'i International Community says was destroyed by Iranian authorities seen in footage released on August 3, 2022. (Screenshot)
August 4, 2022, 12:21 pm
Baha’i UN envoy: Iran carrying out ‘systematic onslaught’ against minority community
Iranian authorities arrest dozens of members of religious group, charging some with spying for Israel; also raid village and destroy homes
By Luke Tress
The newly renovated Bahai Shrine of the Bab is seen in Haifa, April 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
August 2, 2022, 2:57 pm
Baha’i say Iran stepping up persecution of minority faith members
A day after several Baha’is were arrested on charges of spying for Israel, representative says Tehran carrying out fresh house demolitions, raids and arrests
By ToI Staff and AP
The Bahai shrine in the religion's Haifa-based world center. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
August 1, 2022, 4:13 pm
Iran arrests Baha’i community members, alleges they spied for Israel
Intelligence ministry claims suspects handed over information to Baha’i center in Haifa; followers of faith face occasional mistreatment by authorities in Islamic Republic
By AP
Students and their teacher attend class after the opening ceremony of the Hashtroudi school in Tehran, Iran, September 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
March 14, 2021, 11:16 am
Iranian teachers ordered to identify Baha’i students in effort to convert them
Leaked document instructs authorities to ‘conduct strict patrols’ on education of children in religious sect that says its followers are persecuted as heretics
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Pope Francis is surrounded by religious figures during an interfaith meeting in the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq's Dhi Qar province, on March 6, 2021 (Vincenzo PINTO / AFP)
March 6, 2021, 1:25 pm
Pope asks faith leaders to pray together for peace ‘as children of Abraham’
Pontiff attends interfaith meeting in patriarch’s birthplace Ur as part of trip to an Iraq riven by religious and ethnic divisions, calls for end to conflict in Syria
By Agencies
First grade students arrive to their first day of school at Jerusalem's Tali Geulim school on September 1, 2020 (Courtesy Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash 90)
September 4, 2020, 4:26 pm
With capsules, masks and no guarantees, schools give lesson in acting on the fly
It’s a year of more informal education in the Israeli school system, with classes taught by teachers and tour guides at museums, parks and community centers
By Jessica Steinberg
View of the Bahai Gardens terraces in Haifa, from above, 2008. (Wikipedia/Danny Lyulyev/CC BY-SA)
October 29, 2019, 6:01 pm
Baha’is mark bicentenary of prophet at his Haifa tomb
Adherents gather at the mausoleum of the ‘Bab,’ the Persian merchant who laid the foundations for the faith in the mid-19th century
By AFP
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