“If your name comes up anywhere, anywhere that it shouldn’t, then they will keep watching you.”
Even if you think you have escaped to freedom in the West, where authorities remain willfully ignorant about the threat you are under.
“Stunner! Iran’s Basij monitors Christians in West!,” by Bob Unruh, WND, July 24, 2017:
It’s a surprise to no one that Iran’s radical Islamists monitor Christians and others inside their borders.
But now a worldwide Christian ministry, which reaches out to those who are being persecuted, warns of signs that such spying continues even as those members of the faith move to the West.
Officials with Barnabas Fund explain the reports they’ve seen.
“In Iran, Christians are monitored closely and their activities filmed. When the authorities decide to crack down on Christians, they are beaten up, arrested or sometimes they just disappear. One of the main organizations responsible for this is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The Iranian constitution gives the IRGC a specific responsibility for protecting the Islamic revolution ideology in Iran and exporting it to other countries. Closely associated with the IRGC is the Basij, which has a similar ideological basis but whose members, recruited from school age, hold other full-time jobs.
One Iranian Christian was quoted saying, “If your name comes up anywhere, anywhere that it shouldn’t, then they will keep watching you.”
Now there is “growing evidence” that such monitoring by the IRGC and the Basij continues – even after Christians have moved to the West.
The Christian group noted:
- Reports have been seen in recent months from European refugee camps of Iranian government agents monitoring Iranian Christians. “Those who have converted from Islam appear to be a particular target.”
- Several senior members of the IRGC recently have made statements “indicating that they were planning to extend their activities to the USA and Europe.” For example, it was Salar Abnoush, of the IRGC, who said, “So all the world must know that soon Revolutionary Guards forces will be formed in the U.S. and Europe.”
- “The latest development is the arrest and deportation by U.S. Border officials of an Iranian academic who had been granted a visa for a postdoctoral post at a U.S. hospital. However, when news of his deportation broke last week, Iranian opposition activists quickly recognized his name and posted claims on social media that he was the head of the Basij at Tehran’s Sharif University,” the Barnabas report said.
- And it explained Radio Free Europe has heard from former students at the university who now live in North America – and who identified the deportee. The report explained, “None [was] prepared to be identified for fear of reprisals from the Iranian regime.” One person said, “He was among [the Basiji] who would photograph students protesting inside or outside the university. Then a few days later, those students would be arrested.”
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gravenimage says
Iran monitoring activities of Iranian Christians in U.S., Europe
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Muslims don’t want Christians once under their thumb to *ever* escape. This is especially dangerous for Christians who still have relatives in Iran.
mortimer says
It’s clear that RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION is SYSTEMIC in Islam and not an aberration.
The DESTRUCTION of other faiths is the CENTRAL AGENDA of Islam following the emolument of Islamic countries through exploiting the dirty kafirs’ credulous naivety. Westerners like Obama believed that by his generosity towards Iran, the US would win the friendship of Shi’ite Iran… WRONGO.
Shi’ite Iran hates all Western countries in the Dar al Harb ‘for the sake of Allah’, not because the West behaves particularly badly. A kafir never wins this game.
Jayell says
We should expect no more nor less from a supremacist, totalitarian proto-Nazi ideology like Islam especially when it actually clesrly states its objective of global domination. Anyone who says to the contrary must be ignorant, credulous or has a hidden agenda.
Lucia Bartoli says
It might prove beneficial to lethally change one’s name–perhaps to a benign name…that bears no significance to anything that migh target them. OR, change the surname to one of a known muslim, so they fall off the “target” list. If that Iranian Christian lives in Italy then assume an Italian surname–but to be truly effective, it should be done legally and in protected circumstances. The country wherein that Iranian Christian lives should cooperate to make facilitate the name change without drawing attention to one’s self. This is not entirely unlike Jews under Hitler’s thumb, who could not escape before they were “taken.” One must think like the “enemy” in order to beat that enemy at his own game.
Andy says
Christian Persecution | Maryam & Marziyeh in Iran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzqLiLWSSqo
Andy says
Captive in Iran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY5lvqrKehU
David Midbon says
Thank you Andy,
For posting this beautiful video. “Christian Persecution | Maryam & Marziyeh in Iran”.
May God bless and protect you. You are a true hero.
-david
mortimer says
Lucia, they would have to change their names twice and move twice, leaving no forwarding addresses each time. Very tricky. The secret police in Italy should go after the Iranian snoops and extradite them.
somehistory says
Become a Smith or Johnson or Jones….name the children names American’s use for their children.
Dress as Americans do. And change careers.
When the Marshal Service places a person or family in Witness Protection, they have to change everything. Including giving up speaking to relatives and friends from before. That is the hard part…giving up communication with family.
But when it means life, it can be necessary.
Matthieu Baudin says
Iranian students abroad are well aware of the long reach of the the Iranian totalitarian state and that they will be held accountable on their return to their native soil for their actions overseas. Their freedom is quite transitory.
Westman says
In the 70’s the Iranian students at my University were paranoid about spies among them.
David says
The fake “Christians” in the West would be more than happy to cooperate with the (radical) Muslims and throw the middle-eastern Christians to the lions.
Eur says
In Morocco converts Christians who meet secretly are continuously monitored. For the government the converts are like traitors to the mother country. The converts will remain officially Muslim forever, they will have to comply as Muslims and will have social rejection if their new religion is made public. They must perform Ramadan by law, their daughters will inherit half the brothers … and they will never be able to go to a Christian church, they will have to meet secretly. However when Moroccan Muslims come to Spain all are demands of mosques, religious proselytism … I personally dislike Islam.
Santa Voorhees says
But when it comes to monitoring mosques where jihadis may plot to kill infidels or pray their destruction, muslims oppose being monitored and their leftist allies appease them.
Tom says
Systemic persecution of Christians has always been part of Islam and is now starting to peak as Islam gains more and more influence and power in our western governments.
Projection of persecution of muslims is actually, in reality, what they are doing to Christians, Jews, Hindu’s, Sikhs and any people of other religions who are within Islams sphere of influence.
Western politicians are hypnotized by the lie of “systemic Islamophobia” when in reality it is actually Systemic Islamofascism that is happening right under their noses.