IRAN DESTROYS BAHAI HOMES

IRANIAN authorities have destroyed half a dozen homes belonging to Bahais in a new phase of a crackdown that has shaken the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, an NGO said this week. Bahai representatives said 13 community members, including several prominent figures, had already been arrested in raids on Sunday following dozens of arrests over the last two months. Bahais have been subjected to harassment ever since the inception in 1979 of the Islamic republic. |