This month, the Bahá’í community of Ivel, Iran, have gained significant support from the UK, and across the globe, in response to Iranian authorities seizing their land on religious ground.
Our chair, Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, recently released a statement, in which he states: “I am greatly alarmed to learn about the prejudicial ruling of two courts in the Islamic Republic of Iran confiscating land belonging to the Bahá’ís in the rural village of Ivel […] Islam does not permit a government to confiscate land from citizens just because they follow a different religion or ideology[…] the verdicts must be confronted and overturned.”
Other supporters also included Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister of State Foreign Commonwealth & Development Affairs; The former Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Brian Mulroney; as well as various Officials, and politicians, from Brazil, Canada, Germany and Sweden.
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