Iran is stepping up its persecution of members of the Baha’i faith, a representative of the community has said amid a wave of arrests and land seizures from members of the religious minority in the country. “What we are seeing in recent days is a systematic onslaught which is really vicious and cruel and very systematically organized by the government,” Bani Dugal, the Principal Representative of the Baha’i International Community to the UN told the Times of Israel. Baha’ism was founded in Iran in the mid-1800s. Though Iran recognises Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism as minority faiths…