The Islamic Republic of Iran is deeply threatened by Christians and Christianity, and persecutes them harshly. The contrast is stark: in the West, many imams in mosques preach death to the Jews, and are either ignored or even defended in the establishment media. In Iran, meanwhile, Christians don’t preach that anyone should suffer harm, and are arrested and persecuted, while the global “human rights watchdogs” generally look the other way.
“Christians in Iran Seized from Homes, including Violent Imprisonment of Pastor,” Morning Star News, July 25, 2018:
(Morning Star News) – Three Christians in Iran were arrested from their homes today and yesterday following the violent arrest of pastor Yousef Nadarkhani on Sunday (July 22), according to advocacy group Middle East Concern (MEC).
Pastor Nadarkhani, a convert from Islam like the others arrested, was awaiting a summons to begin a 10-year prison sentence after his appeal of a conviction for “propagating house churches” and promoting “Zionist Christianity” was upheld in May.
“Around 10 police officers arrived at the house and physically assaulted Yousef’s son when he opened the door to them,” MEC reported. “Both Yousef and his son were tasered, despite offering no resistance. The manner of their arrest was probably an attempt to intimidate the Christian community, but their friends report that the church has not given in to fear.”
Pastor Nadarkhani was sentenced on July 6, 2017, along with fellow converts from Islam Yasser Mossayebzadeh, Mohammadreza Omidi and Saheb Fadaie. Mossayebzadeh was arrested from his home today, and Omidi and Fadaie were arrested from their homes yesterday evening (July 24), according to MEC.
Pastor Nadarkhani ad [sic] Omidi were also sentenced to two years of internal exile, according to MEC.
“Both will serve this sentence in the south of Iran, far away from their families in Rasht,” the group reported in a press statement.
The three Christians arrested today and yesterday have been taken to Evin Prison in Tehran to join Pastor Nadarkhani, who has been put in a “quarantine” ward normally reserved as a form of punishment, according to MEC.
“Please pray that the Lord will comfort and strengthen those arrested and their families and that the Christian community in Iran will trust the Lord and not be intimidated,” MEC’s statement read, also requesting prayer that “Iranian authorities will treat converts and other religious minorities with respect, and that they and their families will not be wrongly and aggressively handled.”
The four Christians were arrested in Rasht on May 13, 2016 during a series of raids by security agents on Christian homes, according to advocacy group Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). They were sentenced by Judge Ahmadzadeh, head judge of the 26th Branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran, who is accused of miscarriages of justice and is subject to financial sanctions in the United Kingdom, according to CSW.
“Their appeal hearing on 13 December 2017 took place before Judge Hassan Babaee and Judge Ahmad Zargar, both of whom are alleged to have played prominent roles in the crackdown on freedom of expression in Iran,” CSW said in a press statement.
Judge Zargar, a Hojjatolislam (clerical position immediately below an ayatollah), was among several Iranian officials deemed responsible or complicit in serious human rights violations in 2012, according to CSW. He was also one of six judges accused in 2014 of lacking judicial impartiality and overseeing unjust trials of journalists, lawyers, political activists and members of Iran’s ethnic and religious minorities, the group reported.
“The national security charges leveled against these men were spurious, and their sentences are excessive, amounting to a criminalization of Christian practice,” CSW Chief Operating Officer Scot Bower said in the press statement. “We are calling for the unconditional release of Pastor Nadarkhani, and for his sentence and those of Mr. Omidi, Mr. Mossayebzadeh and Mr. Fadaie to be quashed.”…
James Lincoln says
I am certain that all the followers of the Jihad Watch are anxiously awaiting the response of Pope Francis.
Mariner 1946 says
……with bated breath.
Paul says
Pope Francis could care less. Climate change is all that he worries about.
Indiana Tom says
Some of the responses from some members of the Orthodox Church can get funky pretty as well.
J D S says
Pray for this last of and his flock…Sometimes we may think God is not listening..but He is and is taking notes..Iran and all of Islam. is in for a terrible awakening..God will not be mocked..as Islam is doing.
J D S says
ERROR..SHOULD READ…Pray for this pastor and his flock.
Walter Sieruk says
There are many Muslims who strongly dislike Christians. Some Muslims even hate Christians so much that they even become violence against them and burn their Bibles. One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the mullah of Iran who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine. So much so the many Muslims get all worked up against Christians and Christian teachings and some those Muslims commit violent actions against Christians. Such false religious teachers, as those mullahs, who speak to people unfounded and invalid evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines have been described in the Bible. For the Bible informs the reader in Second Peter 2:12. “They speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption.” [N.K.J.V.]
It also should be make clear that in this specific above Bible verse, as well as in John 3:16. The word “Perish” does not mean loss of being but loss of well-being. As in going to ruin by ending up in languishing in torment in a terrible place of suffering that the Bible calls hell. Luke 16:19-31.
In addition to all this, it should be made clear ,as in the following essay .
First, it’s naïve to the degree of delusion and folly to think or feel that the tyranny in power in this “mullah regime” would keep their word in any “agreement deal” they made with the USA and other Westerns nations. Those disingenuous and outright lying mullahs and ayatollahs as well as other Muslim liars in power in Iran can’t be trusted at all, in any way.
Second, those mullahs and ayatollahs in 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.”
Therefore, to reply to the many different claims made by the imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam there is the Christian internet site. It’s http://www.answering-islam.org
Susan B says
Walter I disagree with your quote,
“One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the mullah of Iran who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine.”
The reason muslim hate and murder Christians is because allah commands it in the koran, to muslims the koran is not unproven or terrible, but their god’s truth.
Islam is the problem and always will be until it disappears from this planet.
somehistory says
Jesus said His followers would be persecuted. He also promised His help and support, and a reward to come for keeping their faith in Him and His Father.
Christians know this and can encourage one another to endure “until the end.”
infidel says
Where is the pope?? Washing the feet of Muslims… no time eh!!!
CogitoErgoSum says
Muslims see life as a zero-sum game. They win only when you lose. Islam means submission, not peace and not coexistence. You submit to them and you live. If you do not submit to them one of them will see it as his duty to kill you eventually.
This should give you a clue as to how to deal with them. Cut off from them all that benefits the practice and spread of their religion of Submission. I would not say to ignore one of them if you were to come across a Muslim who needed assistance in a matter of life and death but I would go no further than that. I would definitely not provide them with any assistance that would benefit them in their religion …. such as giving them a place to pray or time off from work to pray or helping them to build a mosque. And if they sought refuge in my country I would grant asylum only to those who were seeking to leave Islam behind.
I know this sounds harsh and I dislike feeling this way but I see no other alternative except letting them win. This awful cancer of a religion has to be stopped.
gravenimage says
+1
KJW says
It’s unfortunate but the effects of Islam can be readily seen in most Muslim majority countries and it isn’t tolerant. Even in the most populated Muslim country, Indonesia, which is getting worse thanks to the Arabians, the Muslims there can’t or don’t or won’t change to liberty and egalitarian ways of thinking. If enough Muslims don’t stand up to the oppressors it won’t happen in the countries they migrate to. As we can see in Europe, the spread of Islam is a downwards slide…it’s contributing more negatives than positives. Europe’s “embracement” of Muslim migration is irreversible. If we keep up this madness in the US, someday it will be here. US needs to reverse the damage already done here. Think of it like dealing with a 7th century two year-old having a tantrum when they can’t get their way. You have to put your foot down or the consequences will be very hard to undo. It’s not an experiment that you can just toss away or a change in legislation by a vote. Same thing with globalists’ ideas and one world government or such. It should be apparent that it won’t be good and would be very hard to undo and cause more problems than the initial problems did.
gravenimage says
Islamic Republic of Iran: Christians seized from homes, pastor arrested and tasered despite offering no resistance
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These *poor people*.
Will we see “Christianblood” here, cheering Iran on in their oppression of Christians? He has said before that the only Christians persecuted in Iran are all secretly “American spies”. *Ugh*.
Indiana Tom says
The animals in Iran are American and israeli spies as I recall.
Indiana Tom says
Gee…as I remember, Iran was a place of love and tolerance per Iran’s best bud, Russian Christian Blood.
gravenimage says
Yep–and if they aren’t, it’s OK–because this is all just “resistance” to the mean old United States.