{"id":982,"date":"2009-07-11T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T04:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=982"},"modified":"2009-08-23T17:03:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T21:03:28","slug":"the-bahai-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2009\/07\/11\/the-bahai-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bah\u00c3\u00a1&#8217;\u00c3\u00ad Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In only hours the government of Iran plans to put on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bahai.org\/story\/719\">trial<\/a> seven Bah\u00c3\u00a1&#8217;\u00c3\u00ad\u00c2\u00a0leaders for &#8220;spying for Israel, spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic and religious offenses&#8221;. Yesterday the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom called for the <a href=\"http:\/\/iran.bahai.us\/2009\/07\/10\/media-release-roxana-saberi-and-the-commission-on-international-religious-freedom-call-for-release-of-iranian-baha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122is-ahead-of-trial\/\">release of these Bah\u00c3\u00a1&#8217;\u00c3\u00ads<\/a>. Similarly the German parlimentary groups have produced similar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranpresswatch.org\/post\/4301\">condemnations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For over 160 years Persia\/Iran has not had a good relationship either Badis or Bah\u00c3\u00a1&#8217;\u00c3\u00ads. Thousands have been executed for following the wrong religion.<\/p>\n<p>I was hopeful for more government pressure on Iran from many countries. Instead, we&#8217;ll rely on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bahaithought.com\/2009\/07\/trial-and-tribulation-world-wide-prayer.html\">prayers for the well being of these poor souls<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In only hours the government of Iran plans to put on trial seven Bah\u00c3\u00a1&#8217;\u00c3\u00ad\u00c2\u00a0leaders for &#8220;spying for Israel, spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic and religious offenses&#8221;. Yesterday the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom called for the release of these Bah\u00c3\u00a1&#8217;\u00c3\u00ads. Similarly the German parlimentary groups have produced similar condemnations. For over 160 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60],"tags":[220,3042,655,416,179,3055,735],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-bahai-faith","tag-bahai","tag-government","tag-iran","tag-propaganda","tag-reading","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-fQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}