Bahá’í International Community (BIC) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday that Iranian authorities are dramatically escalating their state-sponsored repression of Baha’is, marked by a recent series of harsh prison sentences and asset confiscations.

The report documents over 750 incidents, including arrests, home raids, and imprisonments, against members of Iran’s largest non-Muslim religious minority between June and November 2025. This latest wave of repression, which has often separated mothers from young children, follows a pattern of state-sanctioned discrimination rooted in a 1991 government memorandum .

For decades, authorities have systematically denied Baha’is the right to higher education, government employment, and the right to assemble. The Iranian judiciary

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