Iranian Diaspora on the BBC
Written by ry on April 26th, 2006
As part of a new series looking at life in Iran, the BBC interviewed eight members of the Iranian diaspora (Iranians living outside of Iran). One of them, 24 year-old Soroosh Khavari, comes from a Baha’i family:
My family fled Iran during the revolution because they follow the Bahai religion, whose followers suffer much persecution in Iran.
I was only six months old when we left.
The Islamic fundamentalists saw the Bahai community as a threat to Islam because it was becoming popular. The Bahai were denied many rights.
My parents’ people were denied education beyond a certain year and my father, a doctor, was told by his hospital that he would have to renounce his religion to keep his job. He was not prepared to do that.
So my parents escaped. They hired two men on motorbikes to take them over the border into Pakistan. My father held me - still only a baby - and my mother held my sister.
They had one little bag, everything else they left behind. If they had been stopped they would have been killed.
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Thank you for this Bahaiblog.net…this reminded me of somthing I read earlier from the World Order of Baha’u'llah (page 9)that stresses the roles and importance of the ‘administrative machinery’ which will amongst other things, be responsible for the preservation of the identity of ‘the infant Faith of God’…this implies then,that there is this a Bahai identity to preserve.I hope that soon there is direct protection for the Bahai’s of Iran and for the identity of the Iranian Diaspora ,who are Bahai’s, which I believe is also so very important.
“Who, I may ask, when viewing the international character of the Cause, its far-flung ramifications, the increasing complexity of its affairs, the diversity of its adherents, and the state of confusion that assails on every side the infant Faith of God, can for a moment question the necessity of some sort of administrative machinery that will insure, amid the storm and stress of a struggling civilization, the unity of the Faith, the preservation of its identity, and the protection of its interests?
To repudiate the validity of the assemblies of the elected ministers of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh would be to reject those countless Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá wherein They have extolled the station of the “trustees of the Merciful,” enumerated their privileges and duties, emphasized the glory of their mission, revealed the immensity of their task, and warned them of the attacks they must needs expect from the unwisdom of their friends as well as from the malice of their enemies. It is surely for those to whose hands so priceless a heritage has been committed to prayerfully watch lest the tool should supersede the Faith itself, lest undue concern for the minute details arising from the administration of the Cause obscure the vision of its promoters, lest partiality, ambition, and worldliness tend in the course of time to becloud the radiance, stain the purity, and impair the effectiveness of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh.”
>>very very interesting , applied back then (1929) and now.