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GENEVA -- Last March, after being threatened twice, once by anti-Baha'i graffiti at his workplace and then by a hate-filled letter, a 53-year-old Baha'i businessman in Shiraz, Iran, was chained to a tree, doused with gasoline, and assaulted by an unknown assailants who threw lighted matches at him.
Fortuitously, none of the four matches that were tossed at the man ignited the deadly fuel. The first failed to light, the second went out immediately, a third hit his clothes but did not spark the gas, and a fourth fell harmless to the ground. At that point, the assailants--apparently nervous--jumped back in their car and fled, shortly before neighbors arrived and freed the victim.
The entire incident, from the extreme nature of its assault to the neighborly rescue, offers a striking glimpse of the general situation facing Iranian Baha' is today as they strive to practice their religious beliefs in the land where their religion was born.
In recent months, Iran's 300,000-member Baha'i community has faced a wave of escalating violence--and at the same time found surprising pockets of support among the population.
The violence and harassment comes with the obvious blessing of the government, which has fueled hatred against Baha'is...
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