Australia’s Baha’i community pleads for help as arbitrary arrests and home raids escalate in Iran

Nima Moradi says he is “lucky and thankful” to be raising his two children in Australia.

Growing up in Iran as a child of the Baha’i faith, Mr Moradi was often beaten at school.

He was one of five Baha’i children who would cower each morning as they were lined up for assemblies at his school in the Islamic Republic.

He said the principal would lecture the children on the evils of the US, Israel and the “dirty” Baha’i faith.

“I remember in the schoolyard, out of nowhere, somebody would just come and kick you in the back…