Word: bab
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...minority in the country, some 500,000 members of the Bahá'i faith, many of whom held important posts under the Shah. Khomeini's revolutionaries seized all official Bahá'i properties, and last fall a construction crew systematically tore down the House of the Bab in Shiraz, the holiest Bahá'i shrine...