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Eight of the nine members of the replacement National Spiritual Assembly of Iran were executed. They replaced the members who had been arrested and who had "disappeared" in August of 1980. The members of the second National Assembly were:
Mr. Mihdi Amin Amin,
Mrs. Zhinus Mahmudi,
Dr. 'Izzatu'lláh Furúhi,
Mr. Kamran Samimi,
Mr. Jalal Azizi,
Dr. Mahmud Madjhub,
Mr. Sirus Rawshani Oskui, and
Mr. Qudratu'llah Rawhani. Gítí Vahíd was absent from the meeting of the National Spiritual Assembly through illness and so was not arrested.
[BI13; BW19:43; Message from the Universal House of Justice 28 December 1981]
Note: The Archives of the Bahá'í Persecution in Iran reports that seven members of the second National Assembly after the revolution were executed in December 1981. There is a photo but the members are not identified.
See Iran Press Watch # 20394.
A video of the trial of the second Assembly was shown on the BBC on the 17th of October, 2015. Mrs Ahinous Ne'mat was not present in the video. The remaining members shown were:
Mahmound Madjzoob,
Kamran Samimi,
Jalal Azizi,
Qudrat'u'llah Rohani,
Mehdi Amin Amin,
Sirous Roshani Oskou'i, and
Ezzat'u'allah Fououhi.
See Letter From Zhínús Mahmúdí to Her Three Children, 7 June 1981. Her husband Húshang had been elected to the first National Spiritual Assembly. He had been arrested on 21 August 1980 and his whereabouts are still unknown. His wife was arrested on 13 December 1981 and she was executed on the 27th. The Telegraph 22JUN24
[World Order, Series 2, Volume_17 Issue 1 p32-35]
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Link to Muna Mahmoudi's talk on Sacrifice & Martydom.
See Religion New Service 2 April, 2020 for a story about the execution of Kamran Samimi and his companions. For a brief biography of Kamran Samini see Wikipedia.
See Iran Wire for details of the life of Dr Sirous Rowshani Oskui.
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