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Timeline of the Persecution of #IvelBahais:
▪️Mid-1800s: The #Bahai Faith is established, nearly 50% of the population of #Ivel embrace the faith.
▪️1941: #Bahais are arrested, severely beaten and subjected to extortion. Houses and belongings plundered.
#ItsTheirLand
▪️Mid-1800s: The #Bahai Faith is established, nearly 50% of the population of #Ivel embrace the faith.
▪️1941: #Bahais are arrested, severely beaten and subjected to extortion. Houses and belongings plundered.
#ItsTheirLand
▪️1946: A school established by #Bahais is open to all the children of Ivel.
▪️1961: The Baha'is complete a bath house for use by all in #Ivel as a service to their community.
▪️1983: More than 130 Baha'is are imprisoned and held captive w/o any food or water.
#ItsTheirLand
▪️1961: The Baha'is complete a bath house for use by all in #Ivel as a service to their community.
▪️1983: More than 130 Baha'is are imprisoned and held captive w/o any food or water.
#ItsTheirLand
▪️2010: About 50 #Bahai homes are subject to arson attacks and demolition.
▪️Aug 2020: Judge #HasanBabaie issues a final and binding decision that #IvelBahais are not legal owners of their ancestral lands.
#ItsTheirLand
▪️Aug 2020: Judge #HasanBabaie issues a final and binding decision that #IvelBahais are not legal owners of their ancestral lands.
#ItsTheirLand
Evidence that #Hashiya writing is alive and well in #ToddLawson much delayed publication of his revised #PhD from 1988 with some caveats #Babi #ShiiTafsir #Shaykhis #Bahais 1/ 
As with most of #ToddLawson writing it is elegantly composed and insightful not least on the very notion of #tafsir as the mystical encounter with the divine in which the letters express the #deus_revelatus of the 14 #impeccables of the #Shii tradition 2/
We're live-tweeting the @OurCommons hearing on human rights in Iran today. Follow along for details on the testimony.
@OurCommons Maryam Shafiepour, a former political prisoner, is testifying first. She was a politically active university student - and just 22 years old - when she was first summoned for interrogations.
@OurCommons Maryam testifies that she was in solitary confinement for 63 days, denied medical treatment for one year despite the order of judicial authorities, & was held in unhygienic conditions.
