May 14, 2021
The regime has blocked Baha’i families from burying their loved ones in the cemetery section assigned to them years ago, IranWire has reported.
The Baha’i community has seen many of its cemeteries around the country bulldozed and desecrated over the years. Some years ago, the regime assigned a section of Tehran’s Khavaran Cemetery to the Baha’i community. Khavaran is best known as the site of mass graves used to inter the thousands of anti-regime rebels executed in 1988 by order of Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini.
Recently, the website Bidaran carried photos of two new graves dug atop the mass graves of the 1988 execution victims. Bidaran said those two new graves were of Baha’is.
IranWire said cemetery managers had barred Baha’is from opening new gravesites in the assigned Baha’i cemetery area. The Baha’is were told to bury their dead either between the existing Baha’i burial sites at Khavaran or to use the mass burial sites for the 1988 victims, IranWire said.