Hatred: Iran's Media Campaign to Demonize Baha'is", analyzing media items between late 2009 and early 2011.[105]

In November 2009, the popular Iranian conservative newspaper Hamshahri, known to take a critical stand towards President Ahmadinejad, was closed down temporarily, only because it published in an advertisement for tourism travel to India a photograph of a temple of the Baha'i Faith.[99][100][101] After the contested Iranian election of 2009 and the continuing unrest, the government increased its anti-Bahá'í rhetoric, blaming Bahá'ís for the demonstrations,[102] which observers have stated is without merit.[103] The government of Iran has historically defined the Bahá'ís as an 'other' to draw public attention away from the government.[104]

An Israeli mockumentary about the religion called Baha'is In My Backyard was released in 2006.[97] According to the producer, the film waspirated, professionally dubbed and streamed by an Iranian website then altered again to make serious accusations against the Bahá'ís using excerpts from the film on another Iranian website. Another attack was through national television - a "documentary" was televised called The Secret of Armageddon in the first half of 2008 which outlined a Jewish-Bahá'í conspiracy against Iranian interests.[98]

The articles also state that the Báb, one of the Bahá'í Faith's central figures, was taught simultaneously by the Jews and the Tsarist government of Russia, even though the Tsarist government was well-known to have been unfavourable towards the Jews. The Bahá'í World Centre claims that the linking of Bahá'ís with Zionism serves to provoke suspicion and hatred towards the Bahá'ís.[96]

The articles claim, in the face of all historical data, that