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IRAN SAYS BAHAI COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED ESPIONAGE



Issued on: 01/08/2022 - 14:46

Bahai faith's temple on Mount Carmel in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa
Emmanuel DUNAND AFP
1 min

Tehran (AFP) – Iran's intelligence ministry said Monday it has arrested members
of the Bahai minority suspected of spying for a centre located in Israel and of
working illegally to spread their religion.

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Intelligence agents "arrested a number of members of the central core of the
Bahai spy party," who were "directly linked to the Zionist centre known as Bait
al-Adl", the ministry said on its website, without specifying how many.

The Islamic republic regards Bahais as "heretics" and suspects many of espionage
for Israel, where the community has its centre and spiritual home in the
northern city of Haifa.

The ministry said the centre had instructed the suspects to revive the banned
sect in Iran and to carry out "targeted information gathering".

They had been instructed to "infiltrate educational environments at different
levels, especially kindergartens across the country", it said.

Iran allows religious freedom for several minorities but has banned the Bahai
faith which considers Bahaullah, an Iranian born in 1817, to be the latest
prophet sent by God.

Bahais say they have been the targets of discrimination in Iran since the
emergence of the faith in the second half of the 19th century, well before the
1979 Islamic revolution.

The Bahai community claims to have more than seven million followers worldwide,
including some 300,000 in Iran.

In 2018, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling on
Iran to end human rights violations against minority religions including the
Bahais, citing "harassment, intimidation, persecution, arbitrary arrests and
detention", among other breaches.

© 2022 AFP




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