Mehrangiz Moayyad is an Iranian Baha’i widow who lives in a council home on a quiet Aberdeen estate. What she has suffered for her faith is still shocking after more than 30 years. Her husband, a prominent banker who refused to renounce his faith as a Baha’i, was imprisoned, brutally tortured and killed in Iran in 1982 in the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution. Mrs Moayyad herself steadfastly refused to recant her faith despite being imprisoned  in an Iranian jail, tortured for five months and sentenced to hang in 1985. Fortunately Mehrangiz was able to escape from [...] Read more »