The country’s largest religious minority, the Baha’is have faced discrimination ever since their religion was founded in what is now Iran in the mid-19th century. But Iran’s Islamic Revolution brought a turn for the worse. The new constitution gave no official recognition to the faith, seen as a false religion by the fledgling regime. The surge in persecution and harassment led many of Iran’s 300,000 Baha’is to consider their options, and for the past 30 years a great number of them have chosen to leave. This evening, approximately 200 passengers are making the trip to Turkey. Dozens of them are Baha’is on a one-way ticket.
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