“My interrogators told me frankly and boldly: ‘You have no rights and no choice because your religion has already been chosen for you.'”
If Christian officials had said this, which they would not and should not do, it would be the focus of international news for weeks. But no one will take any particular notice of this.
“Iran’s Christians experiencing ‘1984-style nightmare,'” by Victoria Pearson, Christian Today, February 24, 2024:
The persecution of Christians in Iran has echoes of Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, religious freedom advocates have said.
That is the warning in a new report by Article 18 in partnership with Open Doors UK, Middle East Concern and CSW.
The report, Faceless Victims – Rights Violations Against Christians in Iran, was launched in Parliament this week and says that Christians are being subjected to high tech surveillance, including spyware that can extract data, photographs, screenshots of conversations, and recordings of video calls from applications like WhatsApp and Telegram without the user knowing.
One shocking incident was recounted by Iranian Christian convert Touraj Shirani: “We were talking once, when one of my daughters asked, sadly: ‘Why won’t they just leave us alone?’ That very moment, the Ministry of Intelligence called us and said: ‘Shut up!'”
Detained Christians have described gruelling interrogations where they were put under extreme pressure to recant their faith.
One such Christian was Mojtaba Keshavarz Ahmadi, also a convert from Islam, who said: “My interrogators told me frankly and boldly: ‘You have no rights and no choice because your religion has already been chosen for you.'”
Others had to take part in lengthy Islamic “re-education” sessions, even after they had been acquitted.
Christian convert Nima Rezaei recalled the authorities trying to catch her out in a re-education session that was filmed.
“We talked with this theologian for a few hours, and it felt like the whole aim was to try to coax answers from us that would cause us further trouble if we were arrested,” she said.
The report also describes Christians being offered money to remain within the Christian community and inform on other believers.
Iman Shahvari, a Christian convert, said she was once approached by the authorities and asked “to cooperate”. When she refused, they threatened to kill her….
tim gallagher says
islam is so full of extreme hatred towards all non-Muslims, that hatred being the central characteristic of islam, that Muslims, any time that they have power, are bound to treat all non-Muslims appallingly. I can’t wait for the day when all non-Muslims wake up and they tell the Muslims that they have “no rights” in our non-Muslim countries and they can all piss off back to the barbaric Muslim cesspits they crawled out of. The Hungarians and the Poles have it right and they are telling Muslims exactly that message. islam is nothing but evil and needs to be shut away in its backward, primitive Muslim countries or it will ruin human life in all our countries.
Walter Sieruk says
The reason why this is so regarding the severe persecution and imprisonment and even torture of Christians of Iran further expose the intolerant brutal and murderous “mullah regime “ of Iran
First, it would be naive not to the those mullahs and ayatollahs didn’t have a hand in having their stooges , who are Islamic state police, the Revolutionary Guard s arrest so many Christians because those in power in the Islamic tyranny are ruthless and cruel.
Second, this is further proof that Islam is such a weak and fragile religion that the arrest of those few Christians was felt necessary by the ayatollah, mullah and imams of Iran. For those Muslim clerics are afraid that if the Iranian people even have a chance to examine and thus compare and contrast the Bible and the Quran the people of Iran might discover that the Bible of the super of those two books.
Since the foundation for the tyrannical regime of the Islamic “Republic” of Iran is based on the Quran, which is also the entire foundation for of Islam, the Muslim clerics fear that their power base might collapse. So the arrests and sentencing to death of Christians reveals extreme fear those Muslim clerics have of the Bible, For this also show that those Muslim clerics in power in that “mullahs regime” of Iran will use .the Islamic state police and their tools to stop Christians and keep the Iranian people in in ignorance of the Bible and in the darkness of Islam.
Third, those mullahs and ayatollahs and imams of Iran with their falsehoods and deceptions of the many false doctrines of Islam in which they brainwash the Iranian people in believing is something that is both sad and tragic. Those ayatollahs and mullahs are, no doubt, just as deluded as the people who they thoroughly indoctrinate with false teachings of Islam. Of such demonic deception by false teachers who are also deluded such men a have been predicted in the Bible. For in the Bible it’s written that “Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived.” Second Timothy 3:13. [K.J.V.]
All those mullahs and ayatollahs are, according to the doctrines of the Bible, Isaiah 8:20. false religious teachers .Meaning false teachers who teach and indoctrinate the false doctrines of the false religion of Islam into the hearts and minds of others . Such false teachers are described in the Bible ,in Second Peter 2:1. “There were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”
Walter Sieruk says
That malice-filled horrific persecution of Christians under that tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran is a reminded of the blatant lies and outright false statements by the Muslims who are the propagandist for Islam and keep on telling Westerners that “Muslims also believe in Jesus so the difference between Islam and Christianity isn’t really so vast and terrible.”
That type of statement is and outright falsehood of a statement and claim.
For example, if that claim is true to there would not be such severe and terrible and persecution of Christians by Muslims in Shite Iran or in Islamic Sunni counties as Pakistan.
Furthermore, many Muslims claim that they “Love Jesus, too.” Nevertheless, it’s very important for Christians to understand that “jesus” of Islam is not the Jesus of the Bible and Christianity. For the “jesus ” of Islam and the Qu ‘ran is not God.
By strong contrast the Jesus of Christianity and the Bible is God. Meaning God the Son of God the Father. Matthew 3:16. Hebrews 1:6-8.
That Jesus is God many be seen in John 1:1-3. 20:28 Romans 9:6. First John 5:20.
Furthermore by comparing John 5:22 with Romans 14:12. Reveals that Jesus is God.
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In addition, by comparing the Old Testament with the New Testament shows that Jesus is God. As in comparing Psalm 89:8,9 .with Matthew 8:23-27. Proves Jesus is God.
Likewise by comparing Isaiah 46:22,23. With Philippians 2::5-11 shows that Jesus is God. Also
Daniel 7:13,14. Compared with John 5:25, 26 clearly reveals Jesus to be God.
In conclusion, .the “jesus” that Muslims love is not the same Jesus Who Christians love.
Gurek says
At least Iran is not a NATO member and they don’t get the benefits. The West’s double standarts knows no bounds.
dumbledoresarmy says
What is truly remarkable is that there ARE people who, in Iran, where they receive NO worldly advantage at all, from converting to Christianity, out of Islam, are doing so. People whose forebears, for generations, have been steeped in evil, are still… leaving Islam. It is .. nothing short of miraculous that anyone who has been pickled in Islam, from birth, should.. awaken. And that having awakened, many are prepared to persevere, even in the face of threats, suffering, torture and possible death, rather than return into the spiritual slavery and deep darkness from which they emerged.
Blessed are the saints, martyrs and confessors of the Church in Persia.