A number of young women of Bahaii faith have been deprived of admission to university in various Iran cities despite passing the university entrance exam. The excuse cited by officials has been “deficient records”, an excuse used by the Evaluation Organization (Sanjesh) to prevent Baha’iis from entering higher education.
Some of these young women have been identified as: Paniz Johari, Pegah Johari, Roxana Karamzadeh, Taranom Haghighi, Parnia Misaghi, Bahareh Rahmani, Zohreh Fazli, Sama Safari, Pegah Sirousian, Afrouz Zabihi, Ava Sadeghian, Mahna Moslemi, Ghazal Sedaghat, Kiana Zahedi, and Hila Darabi.