Wahid Azal, Siamak Zand and Keyvan Yahya’i chat about Bahāʾīsm
As a preview of podcasts to come, Wahid Azal,
Siamak Zand (freelance journalist and former CBS and SkyNews correspondent) and
Keyvan Yahya’i casually chat about the various schismatic Bahāʾī groups; the excommunication
of Ehsan Yarshater (the late founder and editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia
Iranica); Ahmad Sohrab, Chanler, the Caravan of East and West, and Sohrab’s
court victory against the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the USA
and Canada; Ruth White and the forged will and testament of ʿAbbās Effendī
ʿAbdu’l-Bahāʾ (which was in fact forged by Shoghi Effendi’s mother); the
Remeyite Orthodox Bahāʾī faith (i.e. Bahāʾīs Under The Hereditary
Guardianship), presently under the fourth guardianship of Nosrat’ullah
Bahremand of Perth, Australia; Habīb’ullāh ʿAyn’ul-Mulk’s falling out with
Shoghi Effendi and his disenchantment with Bahāʾīsm; Siamak Zand’s family
connection to eminent early Iranian Bahāʾīs and the Hoveyda family; that
neither Amir-Abbas nor Fereydoun Hoveyda were Bahāʾīs instead Amir-Abbas
Hoveyda was a Freemason with his younger brother largely a freethinker; the two
wills and testaments of Bahāʾullāh and ʿAbdu’l-Bahāʾ’s violation thereof with his
legally questionable excommunication of Muḥammad ʿAlī Effendī wherein Bahāʾīsm
effectively delegitimized itself in theory and law; the unchronologized works
(i.e. tablets) of Bahāʾullāh; the Remeyite Orthodox Soghomonian group, Yazdānī,
and the two rival Orthodox Bahāʾī guardians in Australia; the 2007-09 US NSA
lawsuit against the Orthodox Bahāʾīs and the BUPC (Bahāʾīs Under the Provisions
of the Covenant) for copyright infringement of the name “Bahāʾī” and the US
NSA’s loss of the lawsuit in both the US Illinois District court and on appeal;
the BUPC (Baha’is Under the Provisions of the Covenant), i.e. Jensenites; the
German Free Baha’is; Abdu’l-Bahāʾ as an official intelligence agent of the
British government. More such podcasts will follow in late February and beyond.
SECTS OF BAHAIS: A Taxonomy of Bahāʾī Sects,
http://www.thesectsofbahais.com/
Mīrzā Ahmad Sohrab’s, “BROKEN SILENCE”
http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/archives/SohrabBrokenSilence.pdf
Bahāʾullāh’s
senile ramblings: “The Tablet of O Creator of all creation!” https://www.reddit.com/r/exbahai/comments/8lty3c/bahaullahs_senile_ramblings_the_tablet_of_o/
2007-09 lawsuit by the US NSA, the appeal, and its loss
Audio file of appellate oral argument
hearing http://www.mediafire.com/file/an9gsnuoq09eno1/oral-argument.mp3/file
Baha’is In My Backyard http://vimeo.com/22467795
As an addendum to the last podcast, “The Bahāʾī
Mafia (Part 2)” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVKgQR4EW4I&feature=youtu.be),
journalist and former CBS and SkyNews correspondent Siamak Zand breaks down the
biography of Habib Sabet and his rise in Iran’s post-WWII era business world. Bahāʾī
“Baghdad Bob” Moojan Momen’s Encyclopedia Iranica entry on Sabet:
http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/sabet-habib (read with all filters on).
