Bibliography: QE8QLWAV

key	QE8QLWAV
title	A Triple Threat : The increasing securitisation of Iran’s Baha’is
author	Woodlock, Rachel
authority control	Rachel Woodlock
item type	Journal article
publication year	2025
date	2025
publication title	Melbourne Asia Review
DOI	DOI: 10.37839/MAR2652-550X23.6
abstract note	Since the June 2025 flare-up in the long-running conflict between US-backed Israel and Iran, there has been a predictable intensifying of securitising discourse with each side vowing it is acting in self-defence against an aggressive and belligerent external enemy. Israel paints Iran as an existential threat, and Iran declares Israel to be an illegitimate Zionist occupier of Palestine. With Iran’s military weaknesses exposed and a fragile ceasefire hanging by a thread, it was predictable that the government’s security apparatus would crack down on pro-reform critics and journalists as a way to project power to a domestic audience and stave off dissent. Iran’s religious minorities are also vulnerable to this kind of posturing and the purpose of this article is to look at how and why the Islamic Republic securitises one of its most reviled perceived internal enemies: the followers of the indigenous Baha’i religion.
volume	23
publisher	Asia Institute
place	Melboure, SA
link attachments	https://melbourneasiareview.edu.au/a-triple-threat-the-increasing-securitisation-of-irans-bahais/
manual tags	IRAN; PERSECUTION; HUMAN RIGHTS; SECURITY
section	September 22, 2025