Araz News:  South Azerbaijani Bahai university student, Ms. Elham Pakru Miandab has been expelled from the Mallard Campus of the Azad University in Tehran because of her Bahai beliefs. She had begun a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. She was summoned to the University’s security office and told she had no right to tertiary education, because she is a Bahai. She was also excluded from a private educational initiative known as “The network era” because of her religious beliefs.

According to receiving reports from  Bahai News many numbers of Bahai students have been allowed to register at a university [and pay the first installment of the fees], only to be expelled once they have been identified.

In recent year universities have announced ” defects in the case” for Bahai  students who entering universities, which means Education deprivation for Bahais in Iran, this trend will continue this year also.

Denying the right of education for  Bahai was based on a directive by the Cultural Revolution Council, issued in 1991. This directive states that Bahai doesn’t have the right to education. It is written by Mr. Golpayegani and is signed by [the Supreme Leader] Khamenei during the Cultural Revolution. It is a [internal] law that has never been announced [which] says that Baha`is do not have the right to higher education. They can only study up to the university level. Some claim that this directive no longer exists. [But] it has been published on several websites and shown several times. This is a directive which they refer unofficially, but it has never been publicly announced by a governmental source. It is used, but it doesn’t formally exist. After the Islamic Revolution ,denying the right of education for  Bahai student have continued and implemented systematically.

BY-H.A