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A PREMEDITATED Campaign of Persecution- This premeditated campaign was heralded by violent and repeated public denunciations of the Faith over the air, from the pulpit, and through the press, defaming its holy Founders, distorting its distinctive features, ridiculing its aims and purposes, and perverting its history. It was formally launched by the government's official pronouncement in the Majlis outlawing the Faith and banning its activities throughout the land. It was soon followed by the senseless and uncivilized demolition of the imposing dome of the Baha'i Central Administrative Headquarters in the capital. It assumed serious proportions through the seizure and occupation of all Baha'i administrative headquarters throughout the provinces. (134:3) This drastic action taken by the representatives of the central authorities in cities, towns and villages was the signal for the loosing of a flood of abuse, accompanied by a series of atrocities simultaneously and shamelessly perpetrated in most of the provinces, bringing in its wake desolation to Baha'i homes, economic ruin to Baha'i families, and staining still further the records of Shi'ah Islam in that troubled land.
(134:4)
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