(Reuters) - Iran’s intelligence ministry said on Monday it had arrested a number of adherents of the banned Baha’i faith for links to a centre in Israel, and for proselytising in schools and ...

When Pooya Dayanim, a Los Angeles-based Iranian-Jewish activist, went public a decade ago with the case of 13 Jews jailed in Iran on trumped-up charges of spying for Israel, he based his strategy on ...

Iran’s Baha’i community, by most accounts the country’s largest religious minority, has suffered from increasing persecution in recent months after a series of internal security failures led Iranian ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Seven detained Baha'i believers have confessed to setting up an illegal organization in Iran that took orders from Israel and others to undermine the Islamic system, an Iranian ...

Sam Wiley worked night shift more than 6,000 miles from home. He worked morning and evening shifts, too, patrolling the grounds of one of his faith's most holy places. For a year, Wiley's long hours ...

Keyvan Rahimian, a member of the Baha'i faith in Iran, has been detained by officers from the Intelligence Ministry and subsequently transferred to Evin Prison. His daughter, Jina Rahimian, reported ...

Anis Eghterafi stood engulfed by beauty. Beauty in the gardens surrounding him. Beauty in the community he helped create. “Words can’t put into description how beautiful that culture [is] that is ...

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Regarding Reza Afshari’s “A Slice of Persia in the Heart of Israel” (Houses of Worship, Feb. 19): Mr. Afshari might have mentioned that the largest number of people practicing the Baha’i faith live in ...