The first Annual Convention of
the Baha'is of Iran was
held at Tihran during eight days
commencing April 26, 1934. As in North America, ninety-five delegates had been
assigned proportionately to the national community, and of these eighty-one were present at the first session, eighty-four at the later sessions.
On account
of the vast
Baha'i population of Iran, the ninety-five
delegates were elected proportionately by the believers through twenty
administrative divisions rather than through their separate local Baha'i
communities.
The members of the first
National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Iran were: Valiyu'llah Varqa,
Shu'a'u'llah 'Ala'i,
Dr. Yunis
Afrukhtih, Jinab-i-Fadil-i-Maizindarani,
Amin-Amin, Ahmad Yazdani, 'Ali-Akbar Furutan, 'Inayatu'llah Ahmadpur, and Mahmud Badi'i. The Baha'i affairs
of Iran had previously been directed and coordinated nationally by the former "Central
Assembly" at Tihran.
(Adapted from ‘The Baha’i World 1934-1936’)