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Terry Glavin: The war is over, and the Iranian people lost

The Sotoudeh sisters were released after being arrested for no reason, all too common for the Baha’i people

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Mandana and Mahsa Sotoudeh are free now. That’s the good news. It’s bittersweet, all the same.

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On Wednesday morning, without any explanation, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ intelligence forces released 38-year-old Mandana and her 25-year-old sister Mahsa, allowing them to return to their homes in Shiraz. The IRGC had arrested and imprisoned the sisters three months earlier, also without any explanation.

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Mandana and Mahsa were never charged with anything, and their story is typical of the predicament endured by Iran’s long-tormented Baha’i minority, which has only worsened since last summer’s 12-day war with Israel. The Baha’i International Community has documented several hundred similar cases since last June.

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The persecution went into high gear during the anti-regime protests that began last December, which resulted in the deaths of perhaps 30,000 protesters. The arbitrary arrests have intensified since the U.S.-Israeli war began in February.

Iran’s Baha’is are routinely arrested, commonly without warrant, and often subjected to the most sadistic forms of torture, usually on the pretext that they........

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