HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS OF GONABADI DERVISHES IN IRAN JANUARY 2011 – 2014 Dervishes in Iran continue to face a range of human rights violations, including intimidation, harassment, attacks on their prayer centres, destruction of community cemeteries, arrest and torture. The Nematollahi Gonabadis consider themselves followers of Twelver Shia Islam, the official state religion in Iran. […]