Posted 17/9/2004 @ 10:25:22 GMT Analysis: Iran's Theological Community Contends With Changing World
The 1979 Islamic revolution struck Iran's religious community as the dawn of a new and promising era for the country and its faithful. A quarter of a century later things don't look so rosy for the clerics -- many Iranians view them with disdain, and Al-Najaf, the center of Shi'a learning in Iraq, seems set to eclipse the Iranian theocratic center of Qom.
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Posted 17/9/2004 @ 10:8:30 GMT Is the Hojjatieh Society Making a Comeback?
Friday Prayer leaders throughout Iran warned their congregations in early July of renewed activities on the part of the Hojjatieh Society -- a strongly anti-Baha'i movement that has long been regarded as a potent, if secretive threat to the ruling elites (both imperial and clerical) that have run Iran since the Hojjatieh Society was created in the middle of the last century.
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Posted 17/9/2004 @ 9:42:34 GMT Baha'is Sound the Alarm on Abuses in Iran
The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States asserts, in an advertisement in "The New York Times" of 12 September, that the Iranian government has persecuted the 300,000 members of the religious minority for the last quarter century, the Baha'i World News Service reported.
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Posted 17/9/2004 @ 8:12:45 GMT Iran Nuclear Resolution 'Agreed'
Australia and Canada have delivered the United States a compromise with France, Britain and Germany on a toughly-worded United Nation nuclear resolution on Iran that calls for an immediate halt to Tehran's uranium enrichment program, a Western diplomat said.
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