Evening Edition: Iran's Persecution Of Non-Muslims

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🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The Baha'i community in Iran represents the largest non-Muslim religious group in the country and Tehran has been systematically persecuting them. Members of Baha'i are routinely arrested, thrown in jail and their property and livelihoods taken away from them. FOX'S Trey Yingst speaks to Anthony Vance, the director of Baha’is of the United States, about the current situation in Iran for his fellow practitioners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.6	Friday, November 5th, 2021. I'm Trey Yangs. The Bahai Faith is the second largest in
0:28.9	Iran, but its members are routinely persecuted by the regime in Tehran.
0:33.4	These kinds of very arcane, very medieval kinds of provisions are being used against the
0:40.6	Baha'i community.
0:42.3	Constant harassment through arrests and searches of homes.
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0:48.8	Millions of people are members of the Bahai faith.
0:56.0	The relatively new religion was founded in the mid 1800s,
1:00.0	but has since grown to having representation around the world. Currently its members in
1:04.4	Iran are being targeted for their beliefs despite being the second largest
1:08.0	religion in the Islamic Republic behind Islam. The Baha'i faith is an independent world religion. It's not a sect or part of any other world of religion.
1:18.0	For more on this story, this is Anthony Vance, the director of Bahai's of the United States.
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