The destruction of 50 Baha'i homes demonstrates the Iranian government's disregard for its international obligations
"The governor general is like a physician … if he feels that there is a malignant tumour in the body of the society, he tries to remove it." Such was the official explanation given to Natoly Derakhshan, a Baha'i from the village of Ivel in Mazandaran province, Iran, after the homes of 50 Baha'i farming families were razed in Ivel on 26 June.
If farmers strike you as an unlikely tumour in a country that earns 20% of its GDP from agriculture, then perhaps you do not know the story of the minority Baha'i faith in the Islamic Republic of Iran.The destruction of 50 Baha'i homes demonstrates the Iranian government's disregard for its international obligations
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