by 1981, however, revolutionary courts no longer couched the execution of baháʼís with political terms, and they instead cited only religious reasons. also documents were given out to baháʼís that if they would publicly embrace islam, that their jobs, pensions and property would be reinstated. these documents were shown to the united nations as evidence that the iranian government was using the political accusations as a front to the real religious reason for the persecution of the baháʼís.