The Bahá'ís in Iran, the country's biggest religious minority, have faced penetrating persecution and discrimination ever since the 1979 revolution, forcing the exodus of almost 20 percent of their total population to Pakistan in the 1980s. There are an estimated five to six million Bahá'ís worldwide in more than 200 countries and territories.
The arrest of seven of their leaders in 2008 and their looming trial before a Revolutionary Court on charges of espionage is enormously representative of the decline of human rights under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presidency.
The fate of the seven, who have been denied access to the....