“Iran,” wrote the exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi on November 19, 2024, “was once a bastion of religious liberty. But that changed with the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Alongside Jews and Baha’is, Iranian Christians immediately began to face widespread and rampant persecution.”
Pahlavi explained that “Christian and Catholic leaders were killed, detained, or forced to flee the country, including the Chaldean Archbishop of Tehran. Today the persecution continues and Iranian Christians, especially Christian converts, are deprived of even the most basic rights including access to churches. Christians are routinely imprisoned for their beliefs, facing absurd charges of ‘acts against national security’ and ‘collaboration and espionage for enemy states.’ Others face execution.”
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