India, April 26 -- In the shadow of geopolitical tensions and domestic unrest, a quieter, deeply entrenched crisis continues to unfold in Iran-one that human rights observers describe not as a series of isolated abuses, but as a sustained architecture of repression. For the country's Baha'i community, the largest non-Muslim religious minority in Iran, persecution has entered what many now call a chilling new phase.

"This is not a collection of isolated incidents," says Nilakshi Rajkhowa, Director of the Office of Public Affairs of the Baha'is of India. "It is a coordinated, multi-dimensional system of oppression that targets every dimension of Baha'i life simultaneously-physical liberty, livelihood, education, even burial rights and psyc...