The Baha'i population in Iran is the second largest in the world after that in India.
>From a press release issued by "[r]epresentatives of the American Baha'i
community" in 1999, via Juan Cole: "Since the Islamic regime took
power more than 200 Baha'is have been executed on account of their
religion. With 300,000 adherents, Baha'is are Iran's largest religious
minority. The Baha'i Faith is not recognized as a legitimate religion
in Iran and Baha'is have no constitutional rights"
(<http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/bahai/hrbh798.htm>).
Cole has a paper on the history of Bahai in Iran: "Religious Dissidence and Urban Leadership: Bahais in Qajar Shiraz and Tehran," Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies 37 [1999]: 123-142, (<http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/bahai/2000/urbanbh2.htm>).
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