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Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8202928.stm
Iran Bahais Charged with Spying for Israel
[BBC News] Seven leaders of the Bahai faith in Iran are to go on trial on Tuesday on charges of spying for Israel and of "insulting sanctities." The Bahai faith is banned by the Islamic revolutionary leadership of Iran which considers it heretical. Bahais claim some 300,000 members in Iran, where the faith originated. Hundreds of Bahai followers have been jailed and executed since Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979, the Bahai International Community says.