&gt; To answer the GP&#x27;s question: if you are in Iran, you are likely to end up in prison for any form of openly displaying an unwillingness to follow Islamic rules. If you should find yourself in Iran, my best advice is to leave at the earliest opportunity.<p>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s correct. Apostasy though is banned by law(not just for muslims).<p>Also whether it&#x27;s true or not that there is a strong relationship between Baha&#x27;i and Israel the world center is in Haifa. You don&#x27;t need to be a genius to know that doesn&#x27;t play ball with the Mullah&#x27;s.<p>Any of the downvoters care to explain their downvote? Saying 1800 doesn&#x27;t properly capture that it was founded in 1844 and that by 1853 he the main guy left, because after the previous guy was executed after he declared himself the messiah and wrote a new sharia law, and in &#x27;50 his followers tried to assassinate the shah.