All the links listed below, listed in alphabetical order by chapter, were accessed between September 2023 and March 2024. Exact dates have been provided when available. These sources are linked here so that you can click on them directly, rather than having to manually write down each URL in your browser.
Introduction
https://www.bahaiblog.net/music/recording-artist/doug-cameron-mona-children/, accessed 28 October 2023
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/05/30/yemen-houthis-forcibly-disappear-bahais, accessed 28 October 2023
https://www.saharsblog.com/category/bahais-in-iran/our-story-is-one
https://time.com/6259556/hundreds-of-schoolgirls-in-iran-have-been-targeted-by-poison-attacks-heres-what-to-know/, accessed 28 October 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEyaGAFvFKQ, accessed 28 October 2023
Mona Mahmoudnejad
https://bahaichronicles.org/mona-mahmudnizhad/, accessed 15 November 2023
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/prison-visit-card-mona-mahmoudnejad
https://iranpresswatch.org/post/10493/10493/, accessed 13 November 2023
https://www.iranrights.org/memorial/story/-2990/mona-mahmudnizhad, accessed 12 November 2023
Roya Eshraghi
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/irans-revolutionary-guards, accessed 15 November 2023
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/enayatollah-eshraghis-details,accessed 12 December 2023
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/iran-wire-roya-eshraghi-young-bahai-woman-hanged-her-parents,accessed 12 December 2023
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/prison-visit-card-roya-eshraghi,accessed 12 December 2023
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/zamaneh-website-rozita-eshraghis-article-plight-her-family, accessed 12 December 2023
https://iranwire.com/en/features/66961/, accessed 14 November 2023
Simin Saberi
https://bahai-library.com/bw/9_persecution_community_iran, accessed 19 November 2023
https://www.celebsagewiki.com/simin-saberi, accessed 22 November 2023
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/i-endured-immense-suffering-i-did-not-yield-bahai-woman-hanged-her-beliefs, accessed 27 November 2023
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/prison-visit-card-simindokht-saberi, accessed 22 December 2023
http://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/simin-saberi-executed-hanging-shiraz-18th-june-1983, accessed 18 November 2023
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/simin-saberis-letter-adelabad-prison-her-family
https://iranhrdc.org/community-under-siege-the-ordeal-of-the-bahais-of-shiraz
Shahin (Shirin) Dalvand
https://bahai-library.com/bw19_persecution_community_iran, accessed 20 November 2023
https://bahaiteachings.org/calm-content-even-death-row
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/prison-visit-card-shahin-dalvand
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/shahin-dalvand-executed-hanging-18th-june-1983-shiraz
https://www.iranrights.org/memorial/story/-2831/shahin-shirin-dalvand
https://iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-iran/116898-shirin-dalvand-her-love-for-iran-ended-at-the-gallows
Akhtar Sabet
https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/05/19/iran-mounting-pressure-bahais
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/akhtar-sabet-executed-hanging-shiraz-18th-june-1983
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/akhtar-sabet-executed-her-bahai-faith
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/prison-visit-card-akhtar-sabet-savestani
https://www.iranrights.org/memorial/story/-3257/akhtar-sabet-sarvestani
https://news.bahai.org/story/1013
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/12/08/solitary_symposium
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/iran-concern-ongoing-destruction-cemetery-shiraz
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/health-and-solitary-confinement-issues-and-impact
Mahshid Niroumand
https://bahai-library.com/bw19_persecution_community_iran, accessed on 20 November 2023
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/prison-visit-card-mahshid-niroumand
https://iranrights.org/memorial/story/-3089/mahshid-nirumand
https://iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-iran/106678-mahshid-niroomand-bahai-woman-27-hanged-for-her-faith
Zarrin Moghimi-Abyaneh
https://file.bahai.media/a/af/World_Order2_Vol20_Issue3-4.pdf
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/poem-zarrin-moghimi-grieving-death-hashem-farnoush
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/prison-visit-card-zarrin-moghimi
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/story-bahai-girl-who-was-executed-shiraz-june-1983
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/tonight-i-come-adelabad-essay-zarrin-moghimi
Message from the Universal House of Justice to an individual, 1 July 1996, as quoted on https://bahaiquotes.com/subject/will-and-testament (accessed 4 January 2024)
Tahereh Arjomandi Siyavashi
https://bahai-library.com/nsa-canada_story_mona
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/bahai-married-couple-executed-two-days-apart
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/jamshid-siyavushi-executed-shiraz-hanging-16-june-1983
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/prison-visit-card-tahereh-arjomandi
https://www.tahirih.org/about-us/who-was-tahirih
Nosrat Ghufrani Yaldaie
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/nosrat-ghufranis-letter-adelabad-prison-her-daughter
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/prison-visit-card-nosrat-ghoufrani
https://www.iranwire.org/memorial/story/-4147/nusrat-ghufrani-yaldai
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9850126
Ezzat-Janami Eshraghi
https://bahaiteachings.org/mother-daughter-executed-together
Closing Thoughts
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/detroit-free-press-reagan-asks-iran-spare-bahais
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/star-newspaper-execution-bahai-girls-shiraz