... The government itself engaged in forgery and disinformation in a booklet, Baha'ism: Its Origins and Its Role, distributed at the 36th session (1983) of the UN Sub-Commission on the Protection of Minorities. The booklet repeated the tired allegations that the Baha'i Faith had been created by western imperialists and had served their interests. AS evidence it cited a 1921 telegram of condolence to the Baha'i community from King George V on the passing of the head of the faith, `Abdu'l-Baha. It quoted reports of SAVAK spies, Hojjatiyeh members who had infiltrated the Baha'i community, that prominent Baha'is claimed that the two Pahlavi shahs were Baha'is and that Baha'is had made the first atom bomb. These items were the only evidence provided. Not a single credible document was ever offered to substantiate the outlandish charges. Neither were any incriminating documents linking the Baha'is with espionage or any subversive activity ever produced in the dozens of trials of Baha'is in Iran. Not one document implicating the Baha'is was found in the voluminous State Department and CIA archives that fell into Iranian hands when the US Embassy in Tehran was occupied by militants; although these were published in full by the Iranian government.
Shortly after the disappearance of the members of their National Spiritual Assembly, the Baha'is elected nine new members. Eight of the nine were arrested and executed. One member, who happened to be absent, survived. The Baha'is, for the third time, elected another nine members to the National Spiritual Assembly. All were arrested, some were repeatedly tortured, and four were executed in 1984. By this time the Assembly, in compliance with the order issued by the Prosecutor General, Seyyed Hoseyn Musavi-Tabrizi, had disbanded. It must be noted that the Prosecutor's statement, made public after the Assembly had been dissolved, declared for the first time that membership in Baha'i administrative institutions was a crime. The same Musavi-Tabrizi had stated earlier that: "`The Qur'an recognizes only the People of the Book as religious communities. Others are pagans. Pagans must be eliminated.' Under Islamic law in Iran, `People of the Book' includes only Muslims, Jews, Christians and, by special dispensation, Zoroastrians' (Baha'i International Community, 1999, 27) ...
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