Armed Iranian security agents raided the homes of more than 30 Baha’is on 7 November in Hamadan province. Many of the Baha’is were verbally abused and physically assaulted during the raids. The latest arrests and home searches—which .
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Thursday, 13 May 2021, 3:56 pm
Dr Khatereh Eghdamian counts herself fortunate to call
New Zealand home. The Iranian-born advisor on human rights,
Associate at Oxford House Research and Associate at the
Centre for Religion and Global Affairs, was granted refuge
here after escaping a regime intent on persecuting Baha is,
the largest non-Muslim religious minority in the country.
Eghdamian believes the recent intensification of persecution
signals the implementation of a larger plan by the Iranian
government to increase pressure on the community. The
current campaign includes raids on Baha’i homes and
baseless arrests of Baha’is. “So far, dozens of Baha i
homes have been raided by authorities in Baharestan,
Friday, 30 April 2021, 10:05 am
Iran’s decades-long cradle-to-grave persecution of its
Baha’i community has reached new heights with the Iranian
authorities banning Baha’is use of a previously allocated
space in Tehran’s Khavaran cemetery. “Denying the
community access to their burial site is the latest blow to
the Baha’is who, since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, have
had their cemeteries desecrated and, in some cases,
demolished by government authorities,” says NZ Baha’i
Community spokesman, Paddy Payne.
The cemetery land
assigned to the Baha’is was deemed sufficient for several
decades. However, agents from the Security Office of the
Behesht-e Zahra Organization, which manages Khavaran, have