Comments on: Questioning and Interrogation of Baha’is in Mashhad

By: Accounts of Oppression of Baha'is in Iran - Page 11 - InterfaithForums

Accounts of Oppression of Baha'is in Iran - Page 11 - InterfaithForums — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:11:31 +0000

[...] to be Harassed in Mashhad April 21, 2009 Further to Iran Press Watch report of April 16, 2009, Questioning and Interrogation of Baha’is in Mashhad | Iran Press Watch: The Baha’is, on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, Human Rights Activists of Iran posted the following report, which [...]

By: Updates of the persecution of Baha'is in Iran (tradition, attend) - Page 9 - Religious Education Forum

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:47:30 +0000

[...] to Iran Press Watch report of April 16, 2009, http://www.iranpresswatch.org/2009/04/qibm/, on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, Human Rights Activists of Iran posted the following report, which [...]

By: Nima

Nima — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:17:28 +0000

The government of Iran is anything but Islamic. I see little difference in the tactics of Khomeini/Khamenei, Josef Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, or Fransisco Franco.

By: Marty Flick

Marty Flick — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:35:24 +0000

Mark – yeah, but that’s been done before. Perhaps they could shortcut the whole process, saving time, money, blood and drain on their country’s intellectual capital by simply learning from their own history! MRF

By: Marty Flick

Marty Flick — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:31:51 +0000

Ali – that’s one we learned from the Trojans … but what aboug Geeks bearing .gifs?

Nah – too silly!

By: Ali

Ali — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:05:42 +0000

Stay your course and beware of Greeks bearing gifts!

By: Irani

Irani — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:55:22 +0000

This wave of activity against the Bahai community is no doubt a political move from IRI. Looking at the facts: The IRI authorities know full well that Bahais are not spies they have monitored the Bahai activities and dealt with Bahai community (through Khademin/Yaran) for the past 30 years and they know full well that Bahais are not going to recant or hide their faith they learned this at the early stages of the so called Islamic revolution so there is no doubt they know Bahais and their principles. So the question is why go through this wave when they know the out come of the Bahai reaction full well? Whatever the real motives are, it must be political and I would like to know the view point of other readers on this.

By: Mark Obenauer

Mark Obenauer — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:53:57 +0000

The mentioning of their Faith in public is not by the design of the arrested individuals. Perhaps there is a misunderstanding that taqiyyah is considered taboo by the Baha’i’ religious minority. The Iranian authorities are trying to get the members of the Baha’i’ Faith to repent of what they understand as misguided theology, and they earnestly believe they are doing what is right, and this honorable. Perhaps the Inquisitors will learn more about the Faith what they as they ruthlessly investigate the Faith in their interrogation of the the Baha’i’ prisoners. Perhaps as they investigate the Faith through reading Baha’i’ literature and through their interactions with Baha’i’ prisoners, they will be less ill-disposed towards the Baha’i’ Faith.

By: Marty F

Marty F — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:51:24 +0000

I saw a comment from the Prosecutor General last month, to the effect that the international outcry that has sprung up around the current wave of imprisonments is an ‘old and tired’ tactic. Oh, really? Then is not the imprisonment of people for their faith, then – an even older, more tired tactic? It is, in fact, ancient.

Perhaps he should use the updated method – actually find out what the Baha’i Faith actually is – what he’s persecuting! He’d find that, every time this has been tried, more Baha’is are found – including himself!

But I’m dreaming, aren’t I? Or, maybe praying …

By: Mark Obenauer

Mark Obenauer — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:41:17 +0000

I hope that this is not only the start in this pogram. I can’t see how it can continue without being stopped at some point. Pograms and holocausts have all ended one way or the other. We have no way of knowing what will happen here to the six Baha’i’s in Mashad, nor the others who are presently also imprisoned. Looking at the matter at this minute of time, the cessation of persecution doesn’t appear like it will end anytime soon.

I have one question for the purpose of clarity: Six Baha’i’s were called into the Iranian Intelligence service this past week. In another section, it mentions that nine Bahai’s were called into the Revolutionary Court. So we have really a total of 15 Baha’i’s that are under arrest within past eleven days in Mashad. And something I don’t understand about the IRI government: what is the role of the Revolutionary Court, and the Intelligence Ministry? Are these one and the same or do they have different functions? I find this confusing. Are there other Courts and IRI affiliates that could be involved in the actions of holding Baha’i’s and is there the possibility that these departments’ actions are conducted in tandom, so that a person may have to go through three or four interrogations with a new group of interrogators for each interrogation? So for example the Intelligence ministry , the Revolutionary Court, and the Ayatollah so and so are interrogation prisoner X at the same time?