Eyewitnesses report that the women, old and young the same, carried out the newest praises from Baha’u’llah as they were resulted in new scene of their final misery, which even a number of the guards whom escorted them pleaded together so you’re able to recant and save your self themselves

members of Local Spiritual Assemblies in Shiraz or surrounding areasmhad been executed after a long period of imprisonment and torture. Two days after the men were martyred, ten women Baha’is, similarly imprisoned and tortured, met the same fate. All sixteen deaths were part of a campaign of terror against the Bahai’s instigated under the Islamic revolution. The intention was to undermine the morale of the Baha’i community by exterminating its prominent members and administrative officers, to intimidate and dishearten the general Baha’i community, and to extirpate the Baha’i Faith from the land of its birth.

The fresh new 7 female entitled significantly more than was indeed one of the 10 whose life was terminated inside mm with the 18 June 1983 while they refuted so you’re able to forfeit the allegiance on the Factor in Baha’u’llah and you can denounce His Believe once the heresy. About three most other Baha’i women, Mrs. ‘Izzat J anami Iflraqi, old 50-seven; their particular child, Ru’ya, aged twentythree; and you may Mrs. Tahirih Arjumandi Siyavufli, old thirty-several, passed away together; the tales try informed in other places on these pages. Continue reading →