A new website put up by the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation provides details of human rights violations in Iran in the form of a searchable database listing over 9,000 people who were murdered or executed by that government since 1979. There are 183 Baha’is on the list so far including Ruhu’llah Rawhani, a 52-year-old salesman who was arrested and found guilty of converting a woman to the Baha’i Faith and hanged in a public square in Mashhad in 1998; and Mona Mahmudinizad the 17 year-old student who was hanged in Shiraz 1983.
The site also includes a good summery of the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran including this choice quotation:

“Baha’i is not a religion, it is a political party. It is a party that was initially supported by the British and is now supported by America. They [the Baha’is] are spies…”

Ayatollah Khomeini, Founder of the Islamic Republic (Speech May 28, 1983, Sahife-ye Emam, Volume 17)

(For those of you unfamiliar with the actual teachings of the Baha’i Faith, you can go here to find out what the Baha’i Faith really is.)

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