The Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education was one of the responses to the fact that the Bahá'ís are denied access to higher education. It's an example of constructive resilience. You soon realize that the fact that they've been able to do this for almost 30 years or more is really sheer perseverance. It also represents the community coming together and realizing how important education is.
When it first started, a lot of the classes were held in personal homes, as you say. Now it's moving to be more online, and it continues to be difficult. Not only are they denied access to higher education, but the initiative that they've started is also under attack. Over the years, there have been raids. Anybody associated with the BIHE—we refer to it as the BIHE—has been imprisoned, including some who have studied here in Canada. There was a contingent of Bahá'ís who came to Canada to study in order to be able to go back to Iran with up-to-date methods [Inaudible—Editor]