A Sad Anniversary as Iran’s Brutalization of the Baha’i Continues

COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

BY ELLIOTT ABRAMS

This week marks a landmark in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s crimes against that country’s small Baha’i community: Seven years ago this week the regime imprisoned seven peaceful Baha’i leaders. What is the true nature of Iran’s clerical regime? The answer is visible in its continuing brutal treatment of this religious minority, just 300,000 people in a nation of 70 million—less than one half of one percent of the population.

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