One former fan, a mother of three in the dormitory town of Karaj, west of Tehran, amuses her family by raining new and ever more imaginative curses on the president when he appears on television.
Iranian security officials in Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan and Shiraz raided as many as 30 homes of Baha'is who were part of the Baha'i Institute of Higher Education, or BIHE, established in 1987 to help their co-religionists get undergraduate and graduate degrees.