"The prosecution will undoubtedly drag up the fact that the Baha’i World Centre is in the Haifa-Akka area in the state of Israel. This however is a historical fact that goes back to eighty years before the state of Israel was established. Indeed it was the two leading Muslim monarchs of the world at that time, the Ottoman Sultan and the Shah of Iran, who were responsible for exiling the founder of the Baha’i Faith to Akka, then part of the Ottoman province of Syria, thus resulting eventually in the Baha’i World Centre being established there. If anyone is to blame for the presence of the Baha’is is Israel, it is the Iranian government of that time. If it were being consistent in its accusations, then the Iranian government should also be accusing the Islamic authorities who are in charge of the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem of being Israeli agents just because the third most holy site in Islam is situated there."
-Moojan Momen