Bleak Picture: this is the day to day reality of the Bahá'ís in Iran The question that comes to mind: if you deprive members of a minority of access to education and employment, and do this relentlessly for decades, shouldn't it also be considered a mass atrocity? And more obviously, in such a situation, the grounds are set for all sort of violence to take place. Very often governments claim that the otherness, and the violent acts that ensue from it, are not in their hands, despite their efforts to oppose it - and in Iran, in fact, it has just been the opposite, and we are witnessing more and more acts of solidarity from neighbours, co-workers, fellow-students, parents of pupils, etc. There is a very easy and clear measuring tool for this: are perpetrators of acts of violence prosecuted? Whether a government clearly decides to give a strong signal that it opposes vigorously any such act and swiftly (and with justice - not by finding a quick scapegoat) identifies and prosecutes the perpetrators of such crimes. If it fails to do so, then it should be held equally as responsible as the perpetrators themselves. Suggestion: use the adequate response of a state towards acts of violence as an indicator of its responsibility when these acts are perpetrated. This could also apply to cases of incitement to hatred.