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The Bahais are a small religious group in Iran, barely making up one percent of this Muslim nation. Called ‘apostates’ and reduced to a ‘political sect’, the government neither recognises nor protects the Bahais.

State discrimination is far-ranging – such as discrimination in employment, seizure of properties, and arbitrary arrests – and they include official discrimination in education. The effect? They cannot found educational institutions, are excluded from universities, and meet with attempted forced conversions in schools.

These are the persecutions faced by Bahai students in Iran. To overcome this, they went underground and founded a secret university.

Shirin and Mona were two students who graduated from the secret university.

Called the Bahai Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), it was set up in the mid-1980s by Bahai teachers and students who had been expelled from Iranian universities after the revolution...

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