The judicial situation of Baha'is in Iran

From the beginning of the formation of Baha'ism and with the elimination of the Qajar kingdom and the Iranian cons titutional movement , then the firs t and second kings of Pahlavi regimes and finally the Islamic Republic of Iran, no government has recognized Baha'ism from a legal point of view. The aforementioned governments, which have even had deep ideological and s tructural conflicts with each other, have all been accomplices in not recognizing Baha'ism. This shows that the legal confrontation with Baha'ism is not only a result of the Sharia-based and jurisprudence-oriented view, but even the governments that did not consider themselves to adhere to the Sharia, did not find any legal jus tification to recognize Baha'ism! However, even though the influence of the Baha'is in the political s tructures of the Pahlavi regime was extensive, the juris ts were never able to raise a legal argument in favor of the recognition of Baha'ism. This point is the Achilles' heel of Baha'i in the his tory of contemporary Iran and really puts the Baha'i community in this position to answer why no legal sys tem and government in Iran (and not anywhere in the world) recognizes Baha'i as a Baha’i Belief ?! This article tries to find a documented answer from legal documents for this puzzle.