The rule barring Baha’is from Iran's colleges and universities is "enforced with particular vigor by the hard-line government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad," writes Sohrab Ahmari, an Iranian-American journalist and a nonresident associate research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. Baha'i efforts to educate their youth are “a testament to the ingenuity and resilience of this embattled group...Sadly, however, a severe regime crackdown begun last year threatens to finally realize Golpaygani's dream of culturally erasing Iran's Baha'is."