Before the Islamic revolution, Baha’is was being considered as a cult which could threat the Iranian national benefits supported by the Pahlavi regime. The Pahlavi regime didn’t dare to recognize Baha’ism formally due to people’s aversion. Undoubtedly, some people’s behaviors such as Abdul Karim Ayadi, Hojabr Yazdani, Habib Sabet Pasal who was one of the Baha’i robbers and Farrokhrou Parsa who tried hard to plunder the religious culture of people when she was the education minister. (The emergence and falling of the Pahlavi kingdom, vol. 1, p. 375)
Nevertheless, after the victory of the Islamic revolution, the government tried to block these robbers and prevented their plunders. (The spider’s nets, p. 66)
Footnotes
- Refer to the book “The emergence and falling the Pahlavi kingdom, Bija: Ettela’at, 1370.
- Jawad Nawaeeyan, The spider webs, Mashhad: The cultural institute of Khorasan, 1394.