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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “The Baha'i community is the largest single non-Muslim minority community in Iran, yet since the 1979 revolution, they…”

On the recordJune 18, 2014
The Baha'i community is the largest single non-Muslim minority community in Iran, yet since the 1979 revolution, they have faced unrelenting and unforgiving persecution by the Islamic regime.
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Republican · Florida

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Discussing the persecution of the Baha'i community in Iran.

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