UA: 212/14 Index: MDE 13/047/2014 Iran    Date: 26 August 2014
URGENT ACTION
prisoner of conscience faces death threats

I am a Baha’i citizen of Iran; I live in Tabriz and love to serve my country. Like all other citizens, I have done my military service and paid taxes for the development and prosperity of my country. But, unfortunately I am not entitled to any right as a citizen of Iran.

Summer 2008
 
We are Moslems and consider ourselves more of Moslems than the officials working at Religions Department. Our parents are Moslems too.. However, we used to be Moslems only in our birth certificates. Not only we but thousands of youngsters of this nation were in the same boat before they met their mentor, Iliya M. His puissant and enlightening speech reinforced with his influential and timeless teachings reunited us with The Quran; introduced divinity into our lives; familiarized us and thousands of forlorn youngsters with the core of Islam and the truth of The Quran. He taught us to think; he trained us to investigate and to speak. He vested in us a new identity of pure submission and servitude to God. He freed us from darkness and corruption; brought the name of God to our lips and set light into our souls. Thousands are ready to testify on each and every word of this announcement. We testify with our body and soul; with our life; we testify in the world herein and hereafter; that he saved us all from extinction; that of darkness; that of emptiness and that of facelessness. He gave us new life. It is over three years now that media attacks on his character have been escalating. Religions Department has long been trying to convince us that he is a dangerous; infidel and corrupted person; our friends are regularly summoned and intimidated; and pressurized to go around telling others the same disparaging stories about Iliya.