Baha'is in Iran

Showing the way to survive

Once you deal with people who are persecuted you never really stop.

The Baha’i community in Nashville was a third black, a third white and a third Iranian. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven.

Farzaneh Guillebeaux: My father’s brothers hired someone to kill him when he became a Baha’i.

Farzaneh Guillebeaux: The news of our marriage was like a bomb in Tehran because it was just so rare.

Hussein Ahdieh: Our dog was stoned outside our front door in Iran because we were Baha’is.

Hussein Ahdieh: I always thought “aliens” came from another planet, I didn’t know it applied also to human beings.

African-Americans have always understood that it’s very hard to simply become racist in response to acts of hatred.

Maya Mansour: Tahirih was the first woman to be incarcerated in Persia.