“’A cultural genocide perpetrated with widespread indifference’”. This is how Nobel Peace Prize recipient Shirin Ebadi defines the repression carried out by Iran’s Ayatollah regime against the followers of the Baha’i religion, which for years has continued to grow more severe, according to a report by Amnesty International in 2012 in the chapter on freedom of religion. Unlawful seizure, dozens of arrests, dozens of disappearances, unpaid pensions, vandalized or destroyed cemeteries, prohibitions on hiring Baha’is, incitement to hatred by mullas, burned homes, blocked access to university for those who do not claim to be Muslim on admissions forms, coercion of students to recant their faith, which they refuse to do, with the result that young Baha’is are banned from pursuing a higher education…”