The residential home of Sipehr Atayi’s parents, a journalist and filmmaker based in Europe, was searched by intelligence officers from the Isfahan Intelligence Office on Monday, 2 Shahrivar 1405, due to their Baha’i beliefs.

In a post on Instagram, Atayi said that on Monday morning, intelligence ministry agents raided his parents’ home in Isfahan for the second time within a few months and, by presenting a warrant, searched the home and his father’s workplace for more than six hours.

According to Atayi, during the search, eight men and one woman searched different parts of the home, even the potting soil in the flowerpots and bags of rice.