Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This week marks a landmark in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s crimes against that ...

On July 15, Mohammad Nourizad, a former hard-line conservative columnist turned dissident, kissed the feet of a 4-year-old Baha'i boy named Artin. Nourizad posted a photo of the scene on his blog ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The vicious persecution of Iran’s Baha’i community continued this past week. A ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Members of the Bahá'í faith in Ann Arbor and at the University of Michigan discuss their history ...

(Beirut) – Armed Houthi forces stormed a private residence in Sanaa, Yemen on May 25, 2023, where Yemeni Baha’is were meeting, and detained and subsequently disappeared 17 people, Human Rights Watch ...

(Beirut) – A Doha court sentenced the chair of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is in Qatar to five years in prison on August 13, 2025, based solely on exercising his rights to freedom of ...

One year ago last June, the Baha’i International community launched a campaign entitled Our Story Is One in recognition of four decades since the execution of 10 Baha’i women in Shiraz, Iran on June ...