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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 1359]

[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:

1. Mehdi Safelayan, teacher
2. Bahri Bahremend-Aqdasi, teacher
3. Rouhangiz Kaytur-Shahidi, teacher
4. Sarver Khani, teacher
5. Turan Sabetsanj, teacher

And 11 were [dismissed] from the Petroleum Company, which include:

1.  Hasan Taied-Kashani

2.  Foroughieh Rameshni

3.  Sa’adatollah Monjazeb

4.  Nahid Afshar

5.  Ezatollah Sanavard-Kalami

6.  Saif Baqa’i

7.  Godratollah Afifiyan

8.  Tahereh Vatankhah

9.  Ezzatollah Rouhi Jahromi

10. Goldi Fanaeian

11. Behrouz Anvar Naynachi

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.