Abdollah Shahbazi

Abdollah Shahbazi (Persian: عبدالله شهبازی; born 1955 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian historian. Shahbazi has been described by many researchers as one of the most influential figures in promoting anti-Bahá'í sentiment and antisemitism in contemporary Iran, and his writings have been characterized as containing clear patterns of hate speech against religious minorities. These works, employing conspiracy-based frameworks, have contributed to the reproduction of discriminatory views at official and media levels. For this reason, his role in the formation and expansion of minority-hostile discourse in the Islamic Republic has been repeatedly criticized.