Australian Baha’is are speaking out against a new wave of official attacks in Iran that has seen the closure of businesses run by their friends and family.

At the climax of a seven-day campaign in support of seven unjustly imprisoned Baha’i leaders in Iran, the Australian Baha’i community has distributed a special video via social media.

When Vahid Tizfahm was in solitary confinement in Iran — being punished for his faith as a Baha’i — some of his friends came to the prison with a present for the first day of spring.

This month my younger brother, Behrouz Tavakkoli, completed seven years of an unjust 20-year sentence for being part of the seven-member Baha’i leadership group in Iran. He remains in prison.

For the seventh anniversary of the unjust imprisonment in Iran of my uncle and his six colleagues, I have been involved in the creation of an installation that aims to highlight their situation.

My cousin, Afif Naeimi, is dedicated to improving the community in which he lives.

Jamaloddin Khanjani, 81, is a successful businessman known for his dynamic, loving personality.

My mother, Fariba Kamalabadi, is an educational psychologist and is a warm, compassionate, spiritual and intelligent person.

The first of seven Baha’i leaders to be unjustly imprisoned in 2008 was Mahvash Sabet, a poet whose thoughts and feelings have since inspired people the world over.

A heart-shaped installation at the Baha’i Temple in Sydney is part of a nationwide and global campaign to express loving support to seven wrongly imprisoned Baha’i leaders in Iran, and to call for their release.