Although the dissolution of the National Spiritual Assembly
of 'Iraq has, unhappily, resulted from the persecution of the Faith in that
land, the thirteen new National Spiritual Assemblies which will come into being
this Ridvan will bring the total number of these pillars of the Universal House
of Justice to 113.
(The Universal House of Justice, from a message dated Ridvan
1972; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986)
