As uplifting as the poems may be – and Sabet's individual story – it's often easier for the West to turn the other way when it comes to an intense, serious subject like this. Clinton and Hague may empathise with their plight, but religion and different beliefs have been the cause of so much pain, so much hardship – so many lives – in the Middle East and across the world, that it often becomes easier for people (who are living in a relatively peaceful democracy) to pass off the "injustice" of what's happening to Bahá’ís in Iran as 'just another religious clash'.