Hekmati, a veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States, was unjustly detained while visiting his family in Iran and remained in a prison in Iran on false espionage charges until his release on January 16, 2016. (14) In March 2007, Robert Levinson, a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, disappeared in Iran during a business trip and Iran has refused to cooperate in the investigation into his disappearance. Mr. Levinson is the longest unjustly held United States citizens in history. (15) The principal leaders of the Green Revolution in Iran, Mir Hussein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, have been under house arrest since February 2011. (16) The United States has designated Iran as a country of particular concern for religious freedom pursuant to section 402(b)(1) of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 ( 22 U.S.C. 6442(b)(1) ) for severe violations of religious freedom in every year from 1999 through 2015. (17) In 2015, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom found in its annual report that the Government of Iran continues to engage in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom, including prolonged detention, torture, and executions based primarily or entirely upon the religion of the accused . (18) The Government of Iran continues to propagate anti-Semitism and target members of the Jewish community, and reinstated, in 2014, a Holocaust denial conference, which had been cancelled the previous year. (19) On January 27, 2016, as the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei published a video denying the Holocaust on his official website. (20) Members of the Baha’i Faith in Iran, estimated to number between 300,000 and 350,000, are not recognized as a religious minority under the Constitution of Iran, enjoy virtually no rights under the law, and are banned from practicing their faith. Throughout 2014 and 2015, Iranian authorities shut down numerous Baha’i-owned businesses across the country.