Word: isfahan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last summer Muslim authorities seized an Anglican hospital and a school for blind children in Isfahan. Ever since then they have been intimidating churchmen to lead them to a supposedly missing cache of money...
...night last October, two gunmen burst into the Isfahan bedroom of Anglican Bishop Hassan Barnaba Dehqani-Tafti and his British-born wife Margaret, spraying them with automatic-pistol fire. Four bullets pierced the pillow near the bishop's head. Amazingly, he was not hit, though his wife received a bullet in the arm. The bishop, president of the Central Synod which includes all Anglicans in the Middle East, fled to exile in Cyprus...
...Born in Isfahan, the son of a clergyman, Beheshti began his political career in 1965, when three of Iran's ranking ayatullahs nominated him as spiritual leader of a mosque for Iranian immigrants in Hamburg, West Germany. His five years there aroused much criticism from dissident Iranian students, who accused Beheshti of ignoring the Shah's repression and concentrating on purely religious issues. Beheshti insisted that he was writing a book on Islamic government that would clarify his political views, but such a work has yet to see print. While in Hamburg, he would not allow any written...