Baha'ullah renounced the Bab in order to save his own skin

Baha'ullah's brother-in-law worked for the Russian embassy in an eminent capacity. The Baha'is have omitted this significant detail from their histories because it throws a monkey wrench in everything else they say, but the fact is widely documented. It was for this reason that he was allowed out of Iran and to exile in Iraq (and not execution like all the other Babis in the capital) after the botched assassination attempt on Nasiruddin Shah in the summer of 1852. Furthermore, an epitome of Baha'ullah's interrogation (following his being handed over to Iranian Qajar authorities before his deportation from Iran) exists and was cited by 'Abdu'l-Husayn Ayati Avarih in the first volume of his Kashf'ul-Hiyal. In that interrogation it is recorded that Baha'ullah renounced the Bab in order to save his own skin. This renunciation of the Bab by Baha'ullah later circulated as news among the Babis in Iraq, and after Baha'ullah got to Baghdad he was accused by two of the Witnesses of the Bayan that he (Baha'ullah) had apostatized from the Bayan. This was in 1853. Scans of the letters of Baha'ullah in his own hand attempting to absolve himself from these charges exist and I (N. Wahid Azal) have copies.

- Wahid Azal