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Supervisors Call for End to Deaths
Orange County Board of THEREFORE, BE IT behalf of ‘the ‘) ‘isof - executions f “ Baha'is
SUpervisors, recently RESOLVED THAT TEE Iran and to jut a stop :tó whlch had' already been
joined President Reagan Oraiige County Board of further persecution in or- planned. .He was ignored,:
in calling for the end of. Supervisors does hereby der to establish peace to and on June 16, six Baha'i
executions of adherents of.. support. the efforts of allpeoplesof.theworld.” enwerehanged.
the Baha i Faith by the'. President'RoáaldReagan,' Since, the Ayatollah ‘TWO days later, ten
government of Iran. •, the U.S. Senate Commit- Khomeini came to power women had their lives.
tee on Foreign Affairs, the in 178, more than i o taken by the gallows.
In response to a request u.s. House of Represen- Baha'is have n Many were husbinds and'
by Orange County, tatives Committee on ‘ executed by the Khomeini wives, sons and daughters
Baha'is,.. the.; board Foreign Affairs. and government Thousands executed days apart. One
unanunously passed a ,. World Court; in their at-. have had their homes con- . woman died alongside her
resolution stating:. ‘Now tempt to intercede . on fiscated and been thrown daughter.
outof their jobs.'.: “ : Two eighteen-year-old
On May 22, President girls died for the “crime”
. . Reagan sent aplea tothe. of teaching Baha'i Sunday
Iranians to withhold SChOol classes.
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