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Since the 1979 revolution, the authorities have destroyed most or all of the Baha ' i holy places in Iran, including the House of the Bab in Shiraz, a house in Tehran where Bahá ' u ' lláh was brought up, and other sites connected to aspects of Babi and Baha ' i history.

These demolitions have sometimes been followed by the construction of mosques in a deliberate act of triumphalism.

In addition the Bahá ' í Institute for Higher Education, " an elaborate act of communal self-preservation ", has been systematically raided.

Between 1987 and 2005 the Iranian authorities closed down the university several times as part of the pattern of suppressing the Bahá ' í community.

Between September 30 and October 3 1998, and most recently again on 22 May 2011, officials from the Ministry of Intelligence entered the homes of academic staff of the BIHE, seizing books, computers and personal effects and shutting down buildings used for the school.