[12] Websites claiming to represent the Orthodox Baháʼís indicate followers in the United States and India.
Almost the whole Baháʼí world rejected his claim, which did not even address the requirements that Guardians be descendants of Baha'u'llah—making him ineligible—and that appointments must be clearly confirmed by the nine resident Hands of the Cause in Haifa.
[14] In 1964 the Santa Fe assembly filed a lawsuit against the National Spiritual Assembly (NSA) of the Baháʼís of the United States to receive the legal title to the Baháʼí House of Worship in Illinois, and all other property owned by the NSA.
In 1966, Remey asked the Santa Fe assembly to dissolve, as well as the second International Baháʼí Council that he had appointed with Joel Marangella, residing in France, as president.
[16] The followers of Mason Remey were not organized until several of them began forming their own groups based on different understandings of succession, even before his death in 1974.
[16] The Encyclopædia Iranica reported the following in 1988: Remey died in 1974, having appointed a third Guardian, but the number of adherents to the Orthodox faction remains extremely small.
A website claiming to represent Orthodox Baháʼís indicates followers in the United States and India, and a fourth Guardian named Nosrat’u’llah Bahremand.
[12] Deseret News reported in 2010: Though the judges criticized the ruling from more than four decades ago as wrongfully trying to resolve an internal religious dispute, they determined it was a moot point since the 1966 defendants' denomination is now dissolved.