The house in Tehran where Baha’u'llah was born was added to the register of historic buildings in December 2006 and is to be restored. In recent days, reports of this, with numerous photographs of the exterior and courtyard of the house, have been carried in the conservative FARS news agency and copied by many other publications. This is being used to embarrass Isfandiyar Rahim Masha’i ( اسفندیار رحیم مشایی ), a close ally and relative of President Ahmadinezhad and one of the proposed presidential candidates. FARS claims that there are hundreds of old houses in Tehran with a similar architectural and cultural value, which the provincial authority for Cultural Heritage has not registered. The report lists the homes of princes and prominent clerics of the period that have not been registered, and describes the importance of the house in Bahai history (with the bias one would expect). It was previously owned by an organisation for the propagation of Islam, and purchased by the present owner in 2005, in order to prevent its demolition. This owner has registered it as a historic building and intends to restore it using his own funds. However the ‘transparency” magazine has claimed that it was bought by the Cultural Heritage foundation, at a time when Mr. Masha’i was the head of that organisation.

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Registered in Tehran with the historic homes houses "great light of Mirza 'Ali Mirza encounter the birthplace and ancestral home of Noori cult leader" Baha'i", the action was deliberate or unintentional is unknown!

According to Fars, Tehran these days in the big city with a centuries-old history, culture and architecture of the old houses are found in that particular era, the cultural heritage of homes that are registered in Tehran has been times, homes, such as the houses of the Union, houses Amyrbhadr, imams Home, Home shaghaghi, building the endowment represents all Iraqis learned a leaf from the pages of the history of this city.

However, there is a house near St. Pamenar recorded on 28 December 1385, the National Office of Cultural Heritage in Tehran has come to this house, called "the great light of Mirza" father's house "Mirza Ali Noori" famous leader of Bahá'u'lláh Organizational cult "Baha'i" is.

It was in this house that Ali Nuri was born in 1233 AH and Babbitt began to expand its activities in the book "Nabil Zarandi" - Baha'i books - about activities in the home deviant sect leader wrote: "The Babbitt claims Sayyid Ali Mohammad Shirazi, in Jumada al-Awwal 1260, he was 28 years old and lives in Tehran, which seeks to promote the following chapter, Molla Bshrvyhay known as 'Bob's door', he and his brother, Mirza Yahya, known as the 'morning eternity' in Turning to the first one came about", so the thumb can see that this house is central to the development and promotion of the cult Babbitt in Tehran, though it was an opportunity to Ali himself, Babbitt continued to establish the cult!

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Back from India

Gaunt and weary, Crump returned from travels in India in 1973 with a new perspective on life. His soul-searching at this time reinforced his instinctive rejection of the materialistic way of life of many New Zealanders and led him towards the Baha’i faith, which he adopted formally in 1982.

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Due to several factors, the Universal House of Justice that we have today is one which we haven’t seen before. It is both young and blindered.

A few days ago National Spiritual Assembly members from around the world gathered in Haifa at the 11th International Baha’i Convention to elect the members of the Universal House of Justice. The occasion also marked the 50th anniversary of the first election of the institution in 1963.

The new members of the Universal House of Justice are (in order of votes):

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Membership of the UHJ

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