Persia, the leading nation in the Bahá'í world, today will, I am confident, through its centre, Tihran, communicate with you all, that the East and West, even as our Beloved One has so much wished it, may become even as one. (Shoghi Effendi, excerpt from a letter written to the Baha’is of Japan, dated January 26, 1922; ‘Japan Will Turn Ablaze’, pp. 59) (To see the entire letter, please visit Messages to the Baha’i World)
