NCRI – The State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police— raided a number of houses belonging to Dervishes in the northern city of Lahijan, according to the Resistance sources inside Iran on Friday.

At the early morning hours, with no search warrant, the SSF agents broke into the Dervishes homes and beat up their terrified families.

Ten Dervishes with their wives were arrested and transferred to an unknown location by the SSF agents. 

According to local residents, the Dervishes were very peaceful and respected all Shiite ceremonies including the births and martyrdoms of Shiite Imams sacred among most Iranians. 

It is not the first time Dervishes are treated inhumanly by the mullahs' local agents in the northern province of Gilan. Throughout the country, the followers of the Dervishes are subject to cruel treatments.

Since 2005, the mullahs' regime has attacked their mosques throughout the country. Holy city of Qom and western city of Brojerd were the two bloodiest raids made on Dervishes mosques.
On May 4, 2006, the mullahs' judiciary sentenced 52 of the dervishes on charges of public "intrusion" and civil "disobedience" to imprisonment, flogging and fines, according to the government-controlled Kargozaran daily.

The sentenced dervishes are among the nearly 2000 people who were arrested in February 2006, in the course of the demolition of the Nematollahi dervishes' Mosque in Qom.

In an unprecedented move, the lawyers were fined, sentenced to five years in prison and disbarred by the clerical regime for defending dervishes.

 A number of clerics, who have for years been involved in the torture and murder of the Iranian people, have issued fatwas to wipe out the Dervishes by declaring them a danger to Islam and calling for their suppression.