A/HRC/37/68/Add.1 are provided for Baha’is as well. As it was said, their special sectarian educations are provided by themselves and start from kindergarten and continue. According to educational rules and regulations, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s higher education centers are obliged to cover all Iranian nationals regardless of their religion, sect and inclinations. Based on Iran’s laws, no one has the right of inspection of and inquisition about individual’s personal affairs. Baha’i university students and graduates: given that there is no inquisition of beliefs in the Islamic Republic of Iran, there is no exact statistics about the number of Baha’is who are graduates of and students in Iran’s universities. In some occasions, the presence of some Baha’is has been found out by chance. For example: Ms. SaminHusseini, Ms. BasimehKamjoo, Mr. RoozbehZohdi, Ms. Ferial RahimianKhormazard, Ms. Roshanak Safi Ardestani and Ms. NedaSattarnejadOskooyi. The presence of tens of Baha’is in all levels of higher education (BA, MA, and Ph. D.) in Iran’s universities is a confirmation for the fact that individuals are not treated based on holding a certain belief. It should also be noted that the presence of even one Baha’i in Iran’s higher education centers rejects all the false allegations. About the scientific information provided in the historical programs of the media, it must be noted that historical and documented realities cannot be altered based on the desires of sects and individuals. The mentioned allegation is similar to omit the name of Hitler and his party as the beginners of the World War from historical books in order to prevent insulting the Nazi party. What is prepared in the programs of Iran’s media is based on the theories of historians and researches; they contain no insulting words and include purely historical and scientific information. Investigating incidents and historical documents is of the requirements of freedom of expression. Criticizing views cannot be against the international criteria of freedom of expression, particularly when the criticism contains no insulting words. Considering the records of the one hundred years long cooperation of Baha’ism with the tyrant Shah and the SAVAK1, no restriction can be set for the statement of history. Moreover, official centers have always tried to direct criticisms toward the past history or deviant ideas of sects and to exclude individuals. On the other hand, the responsibility of the ideas expressed by individuals lies with themselves; particularly members of the parliament have extensive rights to express opinions about the issues of the state. F. the sectarian structure of Baha’is in Iran Based on Principle 19 of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Constitution, Iranian people, regardless of their clan and tribe, enjoy equal rights. Additional to this, based on the twentieth Principle of the Constitution, all people of the nation, whether man or woman, are equally protected by law and enjoy all human, political, social and cultural rights according to the Islamic criteria. On the strength of articles 12 and 13 of IRI’s Constitution, the official religion of the State is Islam. Zoroastrian, Jewish and Christian Iranians are the only recognized religious minorities who are free to perform their rituals within the limits of law and act according to their religion in their personal affairs and religious teachings. Beside the mentioned religious minorities, the citizenship rights of followers of different sects, including Baha’is, are observed. It is evident that the citizenship rights of individuals can be observed if they perform their legal duties; since the validity of any right is conditioned by performance of the mutual duty and this legal principle, i.e. the existence of a duty in return for a right, is a known principle in most legal systems. Given that inquisition of beliefs has been strongly prohibited in Islamic religious teachings and as principle twenty three of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Constitution stipulates, “it is forbidden to enquire about beliefs and no one can be prosecuted merely because of holding a certain belief”; despite numerous political and media propaganda, particularly by Baha’i representatives, no individual is jailed or expelled from university only because he/she holds certain beliefs. The illegal and political Baha’i formation is administered by a hierarchical sectarian system. The center of this organization is located in the Occupied Palestine and at the lower levels there are the two main pillars, i.e. “continental counsels” and the “international community”. These two pillars have very close relations with even lower levels such as the “friends of Iran”. 1 Organization of Intelligence and National Security; the secret police, domestic security and intelligence service established by Iran’s dictator Shah. 31

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