Iranians in World Refugee Day

In Islamic Republic of Iran, religious minorities including Iranian Christians, Iranian Bahai's, Iranian Zoroastrians and etc. are among the major refugee seekers in the world. They decry lack of freedom and opportunities, also Bahai's are fleeing religious persecutions and the denial of civil rights and liberties, and the denial of access to higher education and employment.

Most Iranians are Muslims, I can say at least they were born in Muslim family, about 89% belong to Twelver Shia's denomination of Islam, the official state religion and about 9% belong to Sunni denomination. Bahai's are second largest religious minorities after Sunnis, with one big exception that Baha'i religion is not officially recognized by Islamic regime of Iran.

Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians are considered as People of the Book, and little oppression is on them but Baha'i religion is outlawed and sometimes systematically discriminated and persecuted against and often tolerated.

Other group of Iranian refugee claimants have been political refugees. They were among the most scrutinized by UNHCR and/or authorities in destination countries but the problem has been how they have been assessed by authorities based on some documents or media reports which is the worst approach for Iranian refugees because usually Iranian refugees can't provide enough documents and necessary evidences about their situations while Iranian intelligent service moles are quick to provide some documents that's impossible to gather such as prosecution documents!

During reform movement, President Mohammad Khatami's era some of these people with journalist and student titles have got refugees status from western countries specially from North American countries but if you look at their work in the meantime you will notice that most of them are Islamic Iran apologists and even they are against free speech which lack of these two were among their major reasons to apply for refugee!

These moles with pre-planned missions came and have done nothing but bugging Iranian dissidents in diaspora. If you look at their action, these group of refugees still get together with Iranian embassies and plan their exhibitions there (if they are artist/writer), or in their articles defend Islamic regime and their deeds while they are quick to attack individuals who are against Islamic totalitarian of Iran. I am not going to name names, you can find them easily by studying their works and materials.

I am working on a project which it distinguishes between moles and real people in refugee system and hopefully the outcome of this project will be in practice and moles will get caught by foreign authorities before they can go other countries with dissident title and act totally against of what they have said they were doing in Iran. I suggest that we use the final project to reassess on already accepted political refugees, I mean some of them who meet the selection criteria which this application targets. Some of these people's work in destination countries have been so far disgrace to the status that they are getting protection under.

The other small group of Iranian refugees are homosexuals, HIV+ people and so on. That's about Iranian Refugees.