Iran has arrested a “number” of Bahais for running an “online Bahai university” aimed at propagating their faith, the government-run Iran newspaper reported on Monday.
……The Iran newspaper report added that, “this so-called online university was in fact a disguise for spreading the [faith] of the misled Bahai group and setting a trap for the citizens… A large number of books, CDs and computers were seized from them.”……the Bahais, who are barred from higher education and government posts in staunchly Shia Muslim Iran, are regarded as infidels by the majority community and have been persecuted both before and after the country’s 1979 Islamic revolution
In August, Iran sentenced seven leading Bahais to 20 years in jail on charges ranging from spying for foreigners to spreading corruption, from undermining Islam to cooperating with arch-foe Israel.