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Google+Seven Christians from the Church of Iran denomination have been imprisoned following a raid by members of the security services on a house in the city of Shiraz in Fars Province. According to a news...
A member of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution called all non-Islamic religious leaders the most “corrupted” people and also claimed Islamic leaders are the “cleanest” ones in Islamic society. According to Mohabat News,...
Senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi has warned the establishment about the regime’s loss of popularity under the “pressure of rising prices.” Mohabat News — Radio Zamaneh quoted Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi as saying: “Rising...
Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani May Face New Charges. “The new leveled charges raise concern that following widespread international criticism about the ruling issued for Mr. Nadarkhani, Iranian authorities wish to influence the case process by...
Iran’s Revolutionary Court recently upheld Pastor Farshid Fathi’s six-year sentence for “political offenses,” forcing him to complete a prison term that began more than 18 months ago. Farshid was arrested in December 2010 for his...
Google+A German pastor claims the reason many Iranian youth are embracing Christianity is that they come from a religious country in which religion and politics are not divided. According to a story by Mohabat News,...
Google+Five Christian converts have been held in Adel-Abad prison in Shiraz for six months. The five imprisoned Christian Iranian Christian News Agency, Mohabat News, reported that authorities are attempting to raise unsubstantiated charges against these...
Google+Jailed Iranian Pastor Behnam Irani, currently held in Ghezal Hesar prison in Iran, is being denied hospital treatment for severe bleeding due to stomach ulcers and complications with his colon. Pastor Behnam Irani According to...
Commenting on the New York Times’ (4/30/2012) “Experts Believe Iran Conflict Is Less Likely”, we should hope the newspaper is right and there will be no war, because, if it were to start, only God...
In ”Israeli Leaders Make the Iran Issue Their Own” (New York Times, 3/27/2012) we are again told about the Israeli fears; it is time to remind every one concerned that the Israelis are still occupying...
I would like to comment on the New York Times analysis: “In Din Over Iran, Rattling Sabers Echo”, by the following: Syria, Iran, Iran, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia… The American, Occidental and Arab Wahhabi media...
In “Effort to Rebrand Arab Spring Backfires in Iran” (New York Time, 2/2/2012), Robert F. Worth writes: ““Turkish model” of electoral democracy and moderate Islam…” Well, Mr. Worth, if this is your model of democracy...
Leila Mohammadi, a Christian convert whom security authorities arrested in her home was sentenced to two years in prison by the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. According to reports sent by reporters of Iranian Christian news...
In “U.S. Sends Top Iranian Leader a Warning on Strait Threat” (New York Times, 1/12/2011),we read that “the Obama administration is relying on a secret channel of communication to warn Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali...
Google+A Christian human rights agency has received reports that Abdolreza “Matthias” Haghnejad, a pastor in the evangelical Church of Iran denomination from the city of Bandar Anzal, has again been arrested. The arrest by Iranian...
Google+ An Iranian Christian, was temporarily released from jail on July 9 after almost four months in solitary confinement, following the payment of a bail amount equivalent to £62,000. Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reported...
Two new Christian believers who were arrested by security agents and spent more than 63 days in Karoon prison of Ahvaz were conditionally released after posting a combined bail of $100,000 USD. According to sources...
Neshan Saeedi, a 27-year-old Christian, has not been seen since his arrest by government authorities in July, according to the Farsi Christian News Network. On July 24, Saeedi was at home with his wife and...
On July 18, government security forces arrested 15 Christian converts traveling to the city of Bojnoord to meet with other believers, according to Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN). In what appeared to be a coordinated...
On July 25, Ali Golchin was released from Evin Prison after paying bail of 200 million Rials (about $21,700 U.S.), according to Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN). Golchin, 29, was arrested at his home in...
Voice of America is reporting that a judicial official in Iran says a woman’s sentence of death by stoning is not being carried out “for the time being.” Iran’s state-run news agency attributes the statement...
Ali Golchin, a 29-year-old Christian, is extremely sick after being kept in solitary confinement in an Iranian prison. His crime: Believing in Jesus Christ! Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN) — http://www.fcnn.com — is reporting that...
Young converts previously held in prison for Christian activities have fled country. Nearly five months after releasing them from prison, an Iranian court has acquitted two women of all charges related to being Christians and...
The Farsi Christian News Network (www.fcnn.com) is reporting that Iranian Government Security Forces have burned hundreds of Bibles. A spokesperson for FCNN told the ASSIST News Service (ANS), “This action [of burning the Bibles], which...
