US Agency Says Iran Is Increasing Repression of Religious Minorities

Last Friday, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a release expressing concern over the worsening situation for religious minorities in Iran. Jews, Baha'i, Christians and Shi'a and Sufi Muslims have all experienced increasing repression. Since 1999, the State Department, at the urging of the Commission, has designated Iran as a "country of particular concern" under the International Religious Freedom Act. (See prior posting).