1. 1991-2001. References to the Bahá'í Faith in the U.S. State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. United States Department of State, Ralph D. Wagner, comp. . Excerpts from the State Department's annual compilation of Country Reports on Human Rights Practices on discrimination against the Bahá'í Faith and persecution of its adherents in twenty countries. Documents.

1. 1972-04-21 —
   National Spiritual Assembly of the Arabian Peninsula with its seat in Bahrayn was dissolved and the National Spiritual Assembly of the Eastern Arabian was formed with its seat in Bahrayn (Bahrain). The regional assembly had jurisdiction over Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Kuwait, formerly part of the Arabian Peninsula union. formed its own national spiritual assembly. [BW15p297]
   • For picture see BW15:151.
2. 2007-10-00 — In an email to Hossam Bashgat, author of Prohibited Identities: State Interference with Religious Freedom, Bani Digal, the principle representative of the Bahá'í International Community at the United Nations, is quoted as saying that in Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, and the UAE, Bahá'ís have national identity card. [Prohibited Identities p26 footnote 44]
3. 2025-05-28 — Roya Sabet, a Bahá'í citizen residing in the United Arab Emirates, where she had lived for 23 years, travelled to Shiraz on January 4, 2024, to care for her elderly and ill parents. While there, she was arrested by IRGC intelligence agents, on 15 February, 2024 on charges of propaganda against the regime and actions against national security. On this day she was sentenced by Branch 1 of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court to 25 years of discretionary imprisonment, a two-year travel ban with passport cancellation, deprivation of social rights, and a ban on online activities. If upheld by the appeals court, 10 years of imprisonment—as the most severe charge—will be enforceable under sentencing aggregation laws.
   The charges against her include:
   Collaboration and communication with citizens and institutions of the Israeli government.
   Forming and leading a group with the intent to act against national security.
   Propaganda activities contrary to the sacred Islamic law.
   She was eventually released from Adelabad Prison in Shiraz in August 2024, after seven months of pre-trial detention, upon posting bail. [Iran Press Watch 4 June 2025; Hengaw 5 Dec 2025]

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