Overall Discrimination

• 1991 Baha’i Question memorandum outlining overall policy to block the progress and development of Iranian Baha’is.
  Persian original / English translation

• 29 October 2005 letter from Command Headquarters of the Armed Forces to intelligence agencies, the judiciary and police commanders calling for identification and monitoring of Baha’is.
  Persian original / English translation

• 19 August 2006 letter from Ministry of Interior ordering regional governors to “monitor” Baha’i social activities.
  Persian original / English translation

• 27 September 2020 minutes of the Meeting of the Commission on Ethnicities, Sects and Religions in Sari, Mazandaran Province calling for the strict control and monitoring of the Baha'i community.
  Persian original / English translation

Discrimination in Education

• September 2023  Declaration form produced by the Iranian government’s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology requiring Baha’i university hopefuls to renounce their beliefs in order to be allowed admission to university. Persian Original with English Translation
   
• 2006 letter to 81 Iranian universities from the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology instructing them to expel any student who is discovered to be a Baha’i.
  Persian original / English translation

• 17 March 2007 letter to Payame Noor University from the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology concerning the non-enrollment of Baha’i students.
  Persian original / English translation

• 27 May 2007 letter to a student at Guilan University saying she is disqualified according to the 1991 Baha’i Question memorandum.
  Persian original / English translation

• 18 May 2007 letter to Guilan University Director of Academic Affairs saying a Baha’i student is “legally banned” from continuing her education.
  Persian original / English translation

Economic Discrimination

• 2 May 2006 letter from the Trades, Production, and Technical Services Society of Kermanshah to the Iranian Union of Battery Manufacturers requesting list of Baha’i members.
  Persian original / English translation

• 9 April 2007 letter to county police forces about “perverse Baha'i sect” prohibiting Baha’is from select businesses and occupations.
  Persian original / English translation

• 15 March 2009 letter from the Public Places Supervision Office of Kerman Province to Rafsanjan police commanders instructing them to restrict real estate purchases by Baha’is.
  Persian original / English translation

• 18 February 2010 letter from the Public Places Supervision Office to the head of the Association for Union Affairs, requesting information about Baha’is in Karaj.
  Persian original / English translation

Other Documents

• September 2007 letter from People of Hezbollah, distributed to 30 Baha’i homes in Vilashahr, denouncing Baha’is as traitors and agents of colonialism.
  Persian original / English translation

• A list of fatwas and decrees by religious authorities concerning Bahá’ís and commerce, issued circa 2010.
  Persian original / English translation