Sirous Rowshani

Sirous Rowshani, who had survived several assassination attempts by the fall of 1981, was detained on December 13, 1981, at the second session of the Baha'i Faith along with Kamran Samimi, Jinous Mahmoudi, Mahmoud Majnoob, Jalal Azizi, Mehdi Amin Amin, Ezzat Forouhi and Ghodrat Rouhani.

Sirous was executed by firing squad less two weeks after his arrest, on December 27, 1981, along with seven members of the second Baha'i congregation.

After graduating in medicine, Sirous specialized in general anesthesia, and was employed at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education. In 1957, Sirous married Parveen Sheikh al-Islami and they had three children. Sirous was repeatedly threatened and harassed by those who disagreed with his religion. In 1974, he was transferred to Tehran by the Ministry of Health and was expelled many times from his job as an anesthesiologist. He was repeatedly re-employed because of his skills.

Sirous Rowshani (Persian: سیروس روشنی) (born in 1925 – executed in 1981) was an Iranian physician and anesthesiologist. He was persecuted many times for his Baháʼí Faith before the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Although he was under scrutiny, he continued to work in a hospital. After the revolution, Sirous was threatened twice by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, part of the ongoing state-sanctioned persecution of Baháʼís, and in the winter of 1981 he was executed by firing squad, under the pretext of having committed espionage.

Sirous Rowshani was born to a Baháʼí Faith family in 1925 in Tabriz. As a teenager, he stopped attending school and entered the market trade due to financial difficulties and family hardship. However, at age 17, he completed 3 years of study in one year, and then completed two more years of study and entered medical school.