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[The excerpt below is from the section of the article that pertains to the Baha’i Faith]
[Newspaper:] Ettelaat
[Date:] Tuesday, 31 Tir 1359 [22 July 1380]
[Issue No.:] 16196
[Page:] 3
[Human Resource] Purging at Ahvaz Petroleum Company
AHVAZ - Public Relations of the Khuzestan Governor General announced yesterday that the names of 16 people who had been [dismissed] from the Petroleum Company and the Education Department were quoted by the Commission for the Purging and Purification of Governmental Organizations [and Agencies] yesterday.
These people are:
- Mehdi Safaelan, teacher
- Baheri Bahrehmand-Aqdasi, teacher
- Rouhangiz Kaytur-Shahidi, teacher
- Sorour Khani, teacher
- Touran Sabetsanj, teacher
And 11 were [dismissed] from the Petroleum Company, which include:
1. Hasan Taied-Kashani
2. Foroughiyyeh Rameshni
3. Saadatollah Monjazeb
4. Nahid Afshar
5. Ezatollah Senarud-Kalami
6. Seif Baghaie
7. Godratollah Afifian
8. Tahereh Vatankhah
9. Ezzatollah Rouhi Jahromi
10. Goloodi Fanaiyan
11. Behrouz Anvar Naeinehchi
The reasons for the purging of these [individuals] have been reported as intellectual deviations and illegal employment, and their permanent dismissal order was issued by the Commission for the Purging and Purification of Governmental Organizations [and Agencies] of Khuzestan Province.