Sherkat Omana
| Holding company | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Fate | Dissolved |
| Founded 📆 | 1958 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Defunct | 1979 |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , |
Area served 🗺️ | Iran |
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| Parent | Baháʼí administration |
| 🌐 Website | [Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 665: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). ] |
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Sherkat Omana (or Omana Company, literally 'The Trustees’ Company')[2][3] was a for-profit corporation in Iran that the Iranian Baháʼí community utilized to legally hold ownership of their communal assets.[3] Incorporated in the form of a holding company, it possessed over a thousand properties nationwide, which included shrines, cemeteries, community centers, and welfare facilities.[3]
After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the Iranian government confiscated all these assets, which were then taken over by the Mostazafan Foundation.[3] The authorities defended their actions with official allegations that Baháʼís were Zionist agents working with Israel, a claim that Baháʼís view as a form of excuse for persecution.[2]
One of Sherkat Omana's most important subsidiaries was Sherkat Nawnahalan (literally 'The Children’s Company'), an investment company founded in 1917.[2] The latter had a capital of some $5 million in 1979 (amounting to $22.5 million in 2024), and was involved in importing, retailing, industrial projects and mortgages.[3] It also provided student loans and assistance to the elderly of the Baháʼí community.[3] Half of the company's equity was controlled by Sherkat Omana, and the rest was owned by some 15,000 individual Baháʼí shareholders.[2][3]
Citations
- ↑ Bahá'í International Community 1980.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Bahá’í News 1979, p. 7.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Cooper 1985, p. 11.
References
- Cooper, Roger (1985). The Baha'is of Iran. Minority Rights Group. ISBN 9780946690312. Search this book on
- "Írán's Bahá'í community: An impartial report" (PDF). Bahá'í News. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States (585): 7–9. 1979.
- "Balance of debts to be submitted to Omana company". Archives of Bahá’í Persecution in Iran. Bahá'í International Community. 20 March 1980.
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