Word: bahs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...object of Foster's uncertainty is a brown, peanut-size bean called the jojoba (pronounced ho-ho-bah). Nearly a decade ago, researchers found that oil extracted from the beanlike seeds of the jojoba bush, which grows wild in the desert of the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico, could substitute for dwindling supplies of sperm whale...
...working round the clock. In the week following the pro-and anti-Banisadr riots, more than 50 men, women and children were executed. Some of the victims, like the writer and publisher Ali Asghar Amirani, were accused of "strengthening the Shah's regime." Others were members of the Bahá'í faith, whose Iranian adherents, numbering between 300,000 and 500,000, are regarded as heretics by Muslims...
Worst off is the biggest religious minority in the country, some 500,000 members of the Bahá'i faith, many of whom held important posts under the Shah. Khomeini's revolutionaries seized all official Bahá'i properties, and last fall a construction crew systematically tore down the House of the Bab in Shiraz, the holiest Bahá'i shrine...
...Bahá'is are hated as heretics because they believe that The Promised One-expected by Shi'ite Muslims-has already come in the person of Baha'u'llah, who founded the Bahá'i faith in 19th century Persia. But why the attacks on Anglicans? The church has existed in Iran for 150 years, but the 1,000 native Anglicans are associated with onetime British colonialism and suspected of serving as spies. There is a second reason: "Most of our members are Muslim converts," Margaret Dehqani-Tafti told a British reporter. "They are trying...