President Trump asked to face the Iranian regime on the repression of Christians

Iran would have launched a new repression Against Iranian Christians This month after the rearrangement of two men.

According to a report of February 10 on the website of the NGO based in the United Kingdom article18, which aims to protect religious freedom in Iran “, two Christians in sixties who were released after a prison combined of six years in prison Linked to their leadership of the Churchshes management were arrested.

The intelligence agents of the Iranian regime armed the two Christians, Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh and Joseph Shahbazian, and imprisoned the two men of the brutal prison of Evin de Tehran. Gol-Tapeh would be on a hunger strike on an “illegal rearrangement”, noted article 18, which pleads in the name of the persecuted Iranian Christians.

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Article18 said that “the number of other Christians in Tehran have also been arrested at the same time and remain in detention”.

Irano-American and Iranian dissidents urge the Trump administration to highlight the omnipresent Iranian regime of human rights violations while imposing punitive measures on the state of office in Tehran.

Alireza Nader, an expert in Iran, told Fox News Digital: “Christians in Iran are relentlessly persecuted by the Islamist regime. The Trump administration should highlight their publicly fate while putting maximum economic and diplomatic pressure on the diet. “

Wahied Wahdat-Hagh, a German-Iranian political scientist, who is a leading expert for religious minorities in Iran, told Fox News Digital, according to the Christian Advocacy Organization Annual report of opendoors 2025“Christian discrimination in Iran remains extremely severe, marking 86 points out of 100 and ranking 9th among the worst countries for Christian persecution”.

He added: “The government considers that Christian converts as a threat to national security, believing that they are influenced by Western nations to undermine Islam and the regime. . “”

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Wahdat-Hagh continued: “Those who leave Islam to follow Christianity are the most vulnerable. They are refused legal recognition and are frequently targeted by security forces.”

Sheina Vjoudi is an Iranian Christian who fled Iran to Germany to practice his faith without persecution.

She told Fox News Digital: “While belief in Islam continues to decrease in Iran, the significant growth of Christianity has deeply alarmed the Islamic Republic, a theocratic dictatorship. Iran has experienced an exceptional increase in the number of Christian converts, despite the resolutely the oppressive environment.

The disastrous situation of Iranian Christians Has prompted the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, May Sato, ring the alarm in a video presentation organized by article 18., “She said.

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The last report of the US State Department on Religious Freedom in Iran (2023) said: “The government has continued to regulate Christian religious practices. The Christian cult in Farsi was prohibited and the official reports and the media managed by the State continued to characterize the private Christian churches in houses as houses like “illegal networks” and “Zionist propaganda institutions”.

The number of Christians in Iran is difficult to identify due to the general repression of faith. According to the State department Report, the statistical center of the Iranian regime affirms that there are 117,700 Christians of confessions recognized in the 2016 census.

The notes of the database of the global religion of the University of Boston Notes there are approximately 579,000 Christians in Iran, while article 18 estimates that there are 500,000 to 800,000. Open Doors reports the number of 1.24 million.

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Vojoudi, a partner in the Gold Institute for International Strategy, based in the United States, told Fox News Digital: “It is now time for the European nations and the United States to take significant measures, not only by holding the Republic Islamic responsible for his support for terrorism and extremist groups, but also by pursuing him on the international scene for having violated one of the most fundamental human rights: freedom of religion.

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“This is essential not only for the security of Christian converts, but also to reaffirm the values ​​of freedom and human dignity that these nations claim to support.”

Several queries from the Fox News digital press at the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its UN mission in New York have not been returned. Fox News Digital asked if the government would release the Iranians imprisoned for having simply practiced their Christian faith.