Kúrush Talá’í
Kúrush Talá’í (August 27, 1948 - January 4, 1982) was a Persian Bahá’í who was martyred in Iran.
Biography[edit]
Talá’í was born into a Bahá’í family in Tehran in 1948. The family pioneered to Amol in Mazandaran in 1953 but returned to Tehran in 1956. He studied Engineering Architecture at Tehran University completing a post graduate egree then undertook military service. In 1973 he began working for the Umaná Company, the body responsible for overseeing Bahá’í properties in Iran.[1]
When the Iranian Revolution began in 1979 the House of the Báb was destroyed and Talá’í dedicated himself to efforts to work towards the reconstruction of the property. He was elected to the Local Spiritual Assembly of Tehran in 1980 and was arrested with several others at an Assembly meeting on November 2, 1981. He was executed alongside fellow Bahá’ís on January 4, 1981, and their bodies were not returned to their families for burial.[1]
