in 1983 to a report to the human rights commission of the united nations the official view of the islamic republic was published in a twenty-page document; the document stated that british encouraged the baháʼí faith in iran, and that it was not a religion, but a political entity created by colonial powers, that there was a link between the baháʼí faith and zionism and savak. the united nations human rights commission sub-commission expert mr. eide stated that the publication provided by the iranian government "recalled the publications disseminated in europe in the 1920s and 1930s, which had contributed to severe prejudice costing the lives of hundreds of thousands of peoples. the sub-commission should be on guard against any recurrence of such campaigns".