Word: shiraz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Muslim mullahs of Iran regard as blasphemous. An estimated 550 Baha'is are in prison. Thousands more have lost their homes and possessions, and mobs have desecrated Baha'i assembly halls, cemeteries and the faith's holiest shrine in Iran, the House of the Bab in Shiraz...
...Muslim clergy, including many with high positions in the Khomeini regime, grew rich on SAVAK money, which they took to fight Bahaism and Communism." In the 1978 turmoil that preceded the Shah's departure, 40 people, both Baha'is and Muslims, were killed during rioting in Shiraz...
...also have contributed to the sudden toughening of Iran's demands, just as a solution had seemed possible. Travelers leaving Iran last week reported that increasingly violent demonstrations have broken out against Ayatullah Khomeini and the ruling Muslim mullahs. There have been almost daily street protests in Tehran, Shiraz, Tabriz, Isfahan and even the religious centers of Mashhad and Qum. One report estimated that 100 people had been killed in Tabriz when an anti-Khomeini crowd clashed with soldiers and revolutionary guards...
Hardly had the Ayatullah Khomeini taken over Iran last February when Aristo Sayeh, the Anglican vicar in Shiraz, was found with his throat slit. The crime has not been solved...
...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...