The Baha ' i faith , founded in Iran , is considered blasphemous there . Now , 16 Baha ' i professors have been arrested for helping followers get advanced degrees . A government newspaper calls it `` a cover for the propagation of the Baha ' i faith '' and says that they are being persecuted by their own people because they teach evolution as fact.
The Baha ' i faith , founded in Iran , is considered blasphemous there . Now , 16 Baha ' i professors have been arrested for helping followers get advanced degrees . A government newspaper calls it `` a cover for the propagation of the Baha ' i faith '' A U.S. agency says Iran `` will stop at nothing in its shameless persecution of the Baha'is ''