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    • Behrouz Tavakkoli

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    Baha’is in Iran suffer new wave of persecution

    The father of an Ottawa man was arrested in May. More Baha’is were swept up and jailed in January. Baha’i graveyards are ransacked. I’ve written a more detailed story for the Maclean’s website. Yet the overt persecution of Baha’is in Iran receives little media attention elsewhere. Why not?

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    “They don’t want to leave a trace of anything Baha’i”

    Some fear the oppression of a little-known religious minority in Iran is intensifying