IRANIAN PERSECUTION OF THE BAHA’IS.

SEC. 1236. IRANIAN PERSECUTION OF THE BAHA’IS. (a) Policy.— It is the sense of the Congress that— (1) the Government of Iran has systematically discriminated against the Baha’i community, including the arbitrary detention, torture, and killing of Baha’is, the seizure of Baha’i property, and the outlawing of the Baha’i faith; and (2) Iran’s gross violations of the human rights of the Baha’i community are in direct contravention of the Charter of the United Nations and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. (b) Implementation of Policy.— It is the sense of Congress that the President shall take all necessary steps to focus international attention on the plight of the Baha’i community and to bring pressure to bear on the Government of Iran to cease its insidious policy of persecution.