Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSBLA32246920080803) reports that Iranian
authorities have claimed that the seven Baha'is arrested in May ``have set up an illegal organization
with connections to a number of countries including Israel..`` and that they ``have confessed to
setting up an illegal organization in Iran that took orders from Israel and others to undermine the
Islamic system``.

The response from the Baha'i International Community is available here: http://news.bahai.org/story/648 .

"We deny in the strongest possible terms the suggestion that Baha'is in Iran have engaged in any
subversive activity," said Bani Dugal, principal representative of the Baha'i International Community
to the United Nations. "The Baha'i community is not involved in political affairs. Their only 'crime' is the
practice of their religion."

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One cannot help but wonder when those raising these accusations will take a moment to be thorough
in their research, and fair in their judgment.

``Happy are they that judge with fairness`` writes Baha'u'llah, the founder-prophet of the Baha'i faith.
In his Epistle to the Son of the Wolf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Son_of_the_Wolf ,
http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/ESW/) , addressing the son of Shaykh Muhammad-Baqir, Baha'u'llah writes :

``Rejoicest thou in that thou rulest a span of earth, when the whole world, in the estimation of the
people of Baha, is worth as much as the black in the eye of a dead ant? Abandon it unto such as have
set their affections upon it, and turn thou unto Him Who is the Desire of the world. Whither are gone the
proud and their palaces? Gaze thou into their tombs, that thou mayest profit by this example, inasmuch
as We made it a lesson unto every beholder.``

Baha'is welcome the thorough investigation of their faith.