Iranian Baha’is Accused of Working for Israel
Iran’s persecution of Baha’is continues; the radical Islamic regime has now arrested seven Baha’is who, after interrogation (which in Iran means torture), have admitted to receiving orders from Israel to ‘undermine the Islamic system.’
These charges against Baha’is are nothing new. As a commenter at Blogging for a Free World points out, radical Iranians have accused members of this peaceful sect of working for Israel (and the United States) for several years. They are considered to be ‘enemies of the true faith.’ Befriended Baha’is have told me that they have lost several friends and relatives due to the persecution in Iran; they have simply disappeared.
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Thanks for the link, Michael.
I think this is an example of what Iranian regime is: if you consider an "enemy of God" people who believe in peace as the main tenet of their faith (which, by the way, it’s very demanding in other parts of it), then you don’t appreciate peace at all. I’m not saying that peace is the only thing Humans must be worried about, but, in Iranian case, there are other things which should be much more worrying to the leadership than making war upon neighbours. Things such as poverty, Human Rights’ abuses, situation of women, drug trafficking, etc.
The headquarter of the Bahai is located in Haifa, Israel. Maybe this gives the Iranian government reason to mistrust them.
Ben,
The Iranian government well knows why the World Center of the Baha’i Faith is in Israel. The governments of Iran/Persia and of the Ottoman Empire conspired to banish Baha’u'llah from Persia to Iraq, Constantinople, Adrianople and finally to the prison of Akka, in what was then the Ottoman province of Syria. He died there, and consequently His shrine is there. This has been the truth all along. In spite of this, the various governments of Iran have cynically treated the Baha’is as whipping-boys at intervals for more than 150 years. The Baha’is of Iran want nothing more than to be able to assist in the development of their homeland without being treated as animals.