tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post7208953315995107017..comments2024-03-10T13:59:19.230-04:00Comments on xpostfactoid: Mousavi's Paradise Lost: Khomeini's RepublicAndrew Sprunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17601269968798865106noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post-7919392915929636222009-06-25T07:59:40.949-04:002009-06-25T07:59:40.949-04:00Spelling corrected, thanks. Focus here is on Khome...Spelling corrected, thanks. Focus here is on Khomeini's treatment of Baha'is, summarized earlier in the Wikipedia article you cite:<br /><br />Starting in late 1979 the new government of the Islamic Republic of Iran systematically targeted the leadership of the Bahá'í community by focusing on the Bahá'í National Spiritual Assembly (NSA) and Local Spiritual Assemblies (LSA). In November 1979, Ali Murad Davudi, the secretary of the NSA, was kidnapped and never seen again.[30] In August 1980 all nine members of the National Spiritual Assembly were arrested while meeting at a private home.[10] In a statement on September 10, 1980, then speaker of the House Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, stated that an order for the arrests of the Bahá'ís had been issued, but by October 9, 1980 Rafsanjani changed his statement and said that no members of the NSA were arrested.[10] There has been no further news regarding the nine NSA members since their arrest in 1980, and their fate remains unknown, although there are reports that they were at some point held in Evin prison; they are now presumed dead.[10] After the disappearance of the NSA members, the Iranian Bahá'í elected a new NSA. On December 13, 1981 eight of the nine new NSA members were arrested by the Iranian authorities, and were executed on December 27, 1981 without trial.[10]Andrew Sprunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17601269968798865106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post-87784492078571132192009-06-24T23:08:30.881-04:002009-06-24T23:08:30.881-04:00who murdered the leaders of the B'hai and made...<i> who murdered the leaders of the B'hai and made second-class citizens of the rest</i><br /><br />It might be helpful to have the correct spelling - Baha'i. There is also a more careful review of the recent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%ADs#Arrest_of_Bah.C3.A1.27.C3.AD_leaders" rel="nofollow">history of persecution of the Baha'is in Iran.</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com