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The Shia clergy, as well as many Iranians, have continued to regard Bahá ' ís as heretics, and consequently Bahá ' ís have encountered much prejudice and sometimes persecution historically.

The situation of the Bahá ' ís improved under the Pahlavi shahs when the government actively sought to secularize public life however there were still organizations actively persecuting the Bahá ' ís in addition to there being curses children would learn decrying the Báb, a central figure of the religion, and Bahá ' ís.

See Hojjatieh.

The founder of SAVAK, Teymur Bakhtiar, took a pick-ax to a Bahá ' í building himself at the time.