Religious freedom Human rights in Iran

1 religious freedom

1.1 bahá í issues
1.2 jewish issues
1.3 non-government muslim shia issues
1.4 darvish issues
1.5 irreligious people

religious freedom


bahá í issues


mona mahmudnizhad, executed @ age of 17 in shiraz in 1983, along 9 other bahá’í women

amnesty international , others report 202 bahá’ís have been killed since islamic revolution, many more imprisoned, expelled schools , workplaces, denied various benefits or denied registration marriages. iranian bahá ís have regularly had homes ransacked or been banned attending university or holding government jobs, , several hundred have received prison sentences religious beliefs, participating in study circles. bahá í cemeteries have been desecrated , property seized , demolished, including house of mírzá buzurg, bahá u lláh s father. house of báb in shiraz has been destroyed twice, , 1 of 3 sites bahá ís perform pilgrimage.

the islamic republic has stated arrested baha being detained security issues , members of organized establishment linked foreigners, zionists in particular. bani dugal, principal representative of baha international community united nations, replies best proof bahais being persecuted faith, not anti-iranian activity fact that, time , again, baha have been offered freedom if recant baha beliefs , convert islam ...

jewish issues

jews have lived in iran 3,000 years , iran host largest jewish community in middle east outside of israel. estimated 25,000 jews remain in country, although approximately 75% of iran s jewish population has emigrated during , since islamic revolution of 1979 , iran-iraq war in days after islamic revolution in 1979, several jews executed on charges of zionism , relations israel. jews in iran have constitutional rights equal other iranians, although may not hold government jobs or become army officers. have freedom follow religion, not granted freedom proselytize. despite small numbers, jews allotted 1 representative in parliament.

iran s official government-controlled media published protocols of elders of zion in 1994 , 1999. jewish children still attend jewish schools hebrew , religious studies taught, jewish principals have been replaced muslim ones, curricula government-supervised, , jewish sabbath no longer recognized. according jewish journalist roger cohen:

perhaps have bias toward facts on words, reality of iranian civility toward jews tells more iran – sophistication , culture – inflammatory rhetoric. may because m jew , have seldom been treated such consistent warmth in iran.

cohen s depiction of jewish life in iran sparked criticism columnists , activists such jeffrey goldberg of atlantic monthly , rafael medoff, director of david s. wyman institute holocaust studies. in jerusalem post op-ed, medoff criticized cohen being misled existence of synagogues , further argued iranian jews captives of regime, , whatever calibrated not trouble. american jewish committee criticized cohen s articles. dr. eran lerman, director of group s middle east directory, argued cohen’s need argue away unpleasant reality gives rise systematic denial . cohen responded on 2 march, defending observations , further elaborating iran’s islamic republic no third reich redux. nor totalitarian state. stated life more difficult them [the jews] muslims, suggest [jews] inhabit totalitarian hell self-serving nonsense.

privately, many jews complain foreign reporters of discrimination, of of social or bureaucratic nature. islamic government appoints officials run jewish schools, of these being muslims , requires schools must open on saturdays, jewish sabbath. (this has apparently been changed of february 4, 2015.) criticism of policy downfall of last remaining newspaper of iranian jewish community closed in 1991 after criticized government control of jewish schools. instead of expelling jews en masse in libya, iraq, egypt, , yemen, iranians have adopted policy of keeping jews in iran.

non-government muslim shia issues

muslim clerical opponents of islamic republic s political system have not been spared imprisonment. according analyst quoted iran press service, hundreds of clerics have been arrested, defrocked, other left ranks of religion on own, of them, including popular political or intellectual figures such hojjatoleslam abdollah noori, former interior minister or hojjatoleslam yousefi eshkevari, intellectual, or hojjatoleslam mohsen kadivar , middle rank clerics.

darvish issues

iran s darvish persecuted minority. late 1900s, wandering darvish common sight in iran. fewer in number , suffer official opposition sufi religion.

irreligious people

according official iranian census of 2006, there 205,317 irreligious people in iran, including atheists, agnostics, , sceptics. according iranian constitution, irreligious person can t become president of iran.