{"id":1233,"date":"2011-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/index.php\/news\/crackdown-on-education-program-outrages-australian-bahais\/"},"modified":"2017-10-14T04:49:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T04:49:03","slug":"crackdown-on-education-program-outrages-australian-bahais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/index.php\/crackdown-on-education-program-outrages-australian-bahais\/","title":{"rendered":"Crackdown on education program outrages Australian Baha&apos;is"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/Portals\/0\/iran_map.jpg\" alt=\"Crackdown on education program outrages Australian Bahais\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Australian Baha\u2019is have reacted with outrage at a crackdown on Iranian Baha\u2019is who provide higher education to young members of their Faith banned from universities because of their religion.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces carried out coordinated raids on as many as 30 Baha\u2019i homes in the cities of Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan and Shiraz at the weekend, and arrested some 14 Baha\u2019is.<\/p>\n<p>All of the targets were individuals closely involved with the operations of the Baha\u2019i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE).<\/p>\n<p>Australian Baha\u2019i Community spokesperson Natalie Mobini said the crackdown was clearly part of the ongoing systematic campaign of persecution by the authorities designed to eliminate the Baha\u2019i Faith, Iran\u2019s largest non-Muslim minority, from that country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are outraged at this action of the Iranian authorities, which blatantly contravenes international standards of human rights,\u201d Dr Mobini said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese innocent individuals should be released immediately,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe BIHE has worked to meet the tertiary education needs of young Baha\u2019is whom the Iran Government prevents from going to university because of their religion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch is the quality of education delivered by the BIHE that some of its graduates have been accepted for postgraduate study in universities in Australia, Canada and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is outrageous that the Iranian authorities deny young Baha\u2019is the opportunity to gain a higher education in their own country\u2019s universities and now they are cruelly seeking to close down the community\u2019s efforts to provide such education by alternative means.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mobini said that Australian higher education officials and academics have spoken out in the past against the Iranian Government\u2019s ban on Baha\u2019is entering universities and would undoubtedly be shocked at the latest developments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ask that educational organisations, academics and individuals throughout Australia register with the government of Iran and their representatives in Australia their strong disapproval of its systematic, ongoing efforts to deny to young Baha\u2019is their fundamental human right to access higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To see an international report, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bahai.org\/story\/825\">Baha\u2019i World News Service<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further information on <a href=\"https:\/\/denial.bahai.org\/004.php\">BIHE <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Baha\u2019is have reacted with outrage at a crackdown on Iranian Baha\u2019is who provide higher education to young members of their Faith banned from universities because of their religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-releases","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - 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