Skip to content

Site Navigation

  • The Atlantic
  • PopularLatestNewsletters

    Sections

    • Politics
    • Ideas
    • Fiction
    • Technology
    • Science
    • Photo
    • Business
    • Culture
    • Planet
    • Global
    • Books
    • Podcasts
    • Health
    • Education
    • Projects
    • Features
    • Family
    • Events
    • Shadowland
    • Progress
    • Newsletters
    • Explore The Atlantic Archive
    • Play The Atlantic crossword

    The Print Edition

    Latest IssuePast Issues
    Give a Gift
  • Quick Links
    • Dear Therapist
      Dear Therapist
    • Crossword Puzzle
      Crossword Puzzle
    • Magazine Archive
      Magazine Archive
    • Your Subscription
      Your Subscription
  • Popular
  • Latest
  • Newsletters
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
April 1987 Issue
April 1987 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Uganda: Starting Over
    Robert D. Kaplan
  • The April Almanac
  • Notes: A Blaze of Glory
    Cullen Murphy
  • Iran: Holy Terror
  • Iran: Holy Terror
    Fergus M. Bordewich
  • Yet Another True Study of Mankind
    Roy Blount Jr.

Analysis: Trump’s newest indictment may be far more serious than his first.

Iran: Holy Terror

Moslem zealots wage a deadly war against Baha’i heresies

By Fergus M. Bordewich
April 1987 Issue
Saved Stories