[PROVISIONAL TRANSLATION FROM Persian]
[Translator’s notes appear in square brackets.]
[Personal information has been redacted.]
[The excerpt below is from the section of the article that pertains to the Baha’i Faith]
[Newspaper:] Jomhouri-e Eslami
[Date:] Thursday 6 Shahrivar 1359, 17 Shawwal 1400 [28 August 1980]
[Issue No:] 359
[Page:] 4
Hojjatol-Islam Khamenei, at the opening ceremony of the Islamic Cooperative Society of Teachers of Sistan in Zabol, [stated]:
Any actions that cause disunity between Shia and Sunni are considered treason to [the foundation of] religion.
Hojjatol-Islam Khamenei continued, “Today, our country is in need of knowledge and religion and preference should be given to education in the Islamic religion. Teachers must take it very seriously; very often it has been heard that the teachers of religious study in some schools have been [either a] Baha’i, a Communist, negligent person or an atheist.…