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Outing Iran: The Bahai Oppression

By The Daily Dish
Jul 12 2009, 8:44 AM ET

An activist group representing oppressed followers of the Bahí Faith - the largest religious minority in Iran - created this viral video based on Satrapi's famous film.  Wikipedia says:

According to a US panel, attacks on Bahá'ís in Iran have increased since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president. ... [T]he Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights stated on March 20, 2006, that she "also expresses concern that the information gained as a result of such monitoring will be used as a basis for the increased persecution of, and discrimination against, members of the Bahá'í faith, in violation of international standards… The Special Rapporteur is concerned that this latest development indicates that the situation with regard to religious minorities in Iran is, in fact, deteriorating."



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