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...world government and the use of an unspecified universal language. But unity, say members, will come only by worshiping God through Baha'u'llah, the prophet who is his "Manifestation" and who revealed God's message in 100-odd books, which were translated from Arabic and Farsi as the creed spread. The Old Testament messianic predictions and New Testament passages on Christ's second coming are seen as references to Baha'u'llah. In contrast to Islam, the Baha'i faith believes in equal treatment for men and women and teaches that modern...
...Iranians lived in L.A. Today's colony is close to 200,000, the great majority political refugees who have fled their country's revolutionary turmoil. Many more are Jews, concentrated in southern Beverly Hills: there, over bins of dates in greengrocers, signs are printed in English, Farsi and Hebrew. In Beverly Hills elementary schools, one in six children is Iranian. Some American parents worry that their children's education is suffering as teachers slow their lessons to accommodate the Farsi speakers. But one Iranian mother retorts, "When we bought their house and raised the price from $1 million...
...want to go back," he declares. If it were not for his two sons of Iranian draft age (14 and 16), he claims the family would return. But Tehrani's boys would not fare well in Iran in any case. "I don't think they know enough Farsi to survive...
...paperbacks, which include commentaries in Farsi, would appear to represent an extraordinary collection of secret diplomatic and intelligence reports covering U.S. policy toward Iran from 1966 to '79. Though not every one of the 1,000 published pages has been judged authentic, U.S. diplomatic experts privately admit that the papers appear to be genuine...
...Associated Press, which obtained some of the volumes, said yesterday that one volume is in English and is titled "Documents From the American Spy Den in Tehran." Other volumes are in Farsi, the language of Iran...