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This family in Fars province narrowly escaped injury when an arsonist used gasoline and caused an explosion and fire that destroyed a hut near where the family was sleeping

Iran - members of the National Spiritual Assembly who disappeared in August in 1980. All are presumed to have been killed

With its young people banned from public institutions of higher education in Iran since the early 1980s, the Bahá’í community of Iran established in 1987 its own Institute of Higher Education, which at one point enrolled more than 900 students. The Institute operated in private homes, as shown above, and by correspondence. In 1998, Government agents raided more than 500 homes across Iran in an effort to shut down the Institute. Some 30 faculty and staff members were arrested and hundred of thousands of dollars worth of books, furniture, and equipment were confiscated

A devotional meeting at the Bahá’í Centre in New York City in honour of the Yaran, the seven Bahá’í leaders imprisoned in Iran

A campaign in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to raise awareness about the Yaran, seven Bahá’í leaders imprisoned in Iran

Bahá’í cemeteries have been desecrated or destroyed in a number of cities and towns. These tombstones in the Bahá’í cemetery near Najafabad were left in a heap when the entire burial ground was bulldozed

The BIHE - Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education - was created in 1987 to meet the educational needs of young people who had been systematically denied access to higher education by the Iranian government. The BIHE relied heavily on the use of extensive photocopying, One of the biggest blows to the program was in 1998 when the government confiscated several large photocopying units

Destruction of the National Bahá’í Center in Tehran, Iran circa 1955

The seven Bahá’ís arrested in 2008 whose trial began on 12 January 2010 are, seated from left, Behrouz Tavakkoli and Saeid Rezaie, and, standing, Fariba Kamalabadi, Vahid Tizfahm, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, and Mahvash Sabet. All are from Tehran. The photograph was taken several months before their arrest

A campaign in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to raise awareness about the Yaran, seven Bahá’í leaders imprisoned in Iran

Bahá’í homes and automobiles have been the target of arsonists, who often act with legal impunity. This home in Kerman was gutted by fire in July of 2008. The family had received threatening phone calls, and someone also tried to burn their car

A Bahá’í father and son (at left) in chains after being arrested with fellow Bahá’ís, in a photograph taken around 1896. Both were subsequently executed

The seven imprisoned Bahá’í leaders whose trial began on 12 January 2010 are, from left, Behrouz Tavakkoli, Fariba Kamalabadi, Vahid Tizfahm, Mahvash Sabet; Jamaloddin Khanjani, Saeid Rezaie, and Afif Naeimi

A letter from a government ministry to 81 Iranian universities instructs them to expel Bahá’í students

The House of the Báb in<u>Sh</u>íráz, one of the most holy sites in the Bahá’í world, was destroyed by Revolutionary Guardsmen in 1979 and later razed by the government

A campaign in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to raise awareness about the Yaran, seven Bahá’í leaders imprisoned in Iran

A campaign in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to raise awareness about the Yaran, seven Bahá’í leaders imprisoned in Iran

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