The Baha’í Faith was established in 1863 by Baha’u’llah in Qajar Persia. Baha’u’llah, a Babi who claimed to be the one foretold by the Bab, claimed a similar station for himself in 1863 as a Manifestation of God and as the promised figure foretold in the sacred scriptures of the major religious traditions of the […]
In the summer of 2020, Niloufar Bahadorifar, an expatriate Iranian in California, received a message from someone in her home country asking her to send money to the PayPal account of a person in Manhattan. Ms. Bahadorifar passed along $670 and forwarded proof of the transaction to Iran.The payment may have seemed unremarkable, but federal […]