"It seems noteworthy, with this in mind, that Buddhism survived longer in Iran than it did in the South-Asian subconti…"

"The Buddhism of Burma is probably the purest now extant, and its monks often approach the ideal of Buddha; under thei…"

"Journalist Ramita Navai has observed: Despite the revolution, Iranians are inordinately proud of the great Persian em…"

"A senior Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Bojnourdi, has declared, “Only Baha’is ‘who cooperate with Israel’ or ‘advocate ag…"

"“It’s really one of the most obvious cases of state persecution,” Heiner Bielefeldt, the UN Special Rapporteur on fre…"

"In November 2005, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati of the Council of Guardians of the Constitution denounced Zoroastrians as “…"

"Kourash Niknam, the Zoroastrian member of the Majlis, said in 2006 that being a Zoroastrian in Iran was like being a …"

"When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president in 2005, he vowed, “I will stop Christianity in this country.”7"

"The Christian organization Open Doors notes that Christian proselytizing is strictly forbidden in Iran, “especially w…"