The Derailed Micheal Aoun & Bchara Al Raei/Two Reports on Persecution Of Christains In Iran Elias Bejjani/16.06.15
For the Pro Axis Of Evil Derailed Patriarch Al Raei & Micheal Aoun: This is how the Iranian Mullahs Persecute Christians
Lebanon will know no peace, independence, sovereignty, prosperity, safe borders with its neighbours, or tranquility as long as it is fully controlled and occupied by the Iranian Terrorist militia, Hezbollah.
This Bloody Iranian armed contingent is savagely terrorizing the Lebanese people, impoverishing them, and against their will engaged in all the Iranian expansionism wars in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain and other Arabic countries.
Meanwhile Hezbollah would not have been able after year 2005 (in the aftermath of the Syrian occupying army withdrawal from Lebanon) to impose by fore its hegemony and Iranian agenda on Lebanon and abort all efforts for the country to reclaim its freedom and independence without the evil full support of the Derailed and narcissist, MP. Michael Aoun and later on by the arrogant and unpredictable Maronite Petrarch, Bchara Al Raei.
Both Aoun and Al Raei with all the pro Axis of Evil Lebanese 8th of March coalition falsely allege that the Syrian Al Assad criminal regime and its counterpart the Iranian Mullahs religious dictatorship are the angels and the protectors for the Christians and all other minorities in the Middle East. These naive allegations are mere lies and obnoxious sickening confabulations.
In reality both regimes in Iran and Syria are identical replicates of the savage Isis, Al Nosra and all other religious Jihadi regimes and organization. Below are two reports published today by the Jihad Watch Web site that expose the terrorism, persecution and stone age mentality of the Iranian Mullahs religious regime.
These two reports are solid and tangible proves that both Aoun and Al Raei are misleading the Lebanese people and accordingly must not be abandoned and not trusted at all as Lebanese Christian leaders.
Iran sentences 18 Christians to prison in new crackdown on Christianity
June 16, 2015 5:28 am By Ralph Sidway /Jehad Watch http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/06/iran-sentences-18-christians-to-prison-in-new-crackdown-on-christianity
“Charges include evangelism, propaganda against the regime, and creating house churches to practice their faith,” with prison sentences up to 24 years.
Iran’s persecution of Christians is so harsh and relentless that it’s hard to keep up with it, as a quick search here on Jihad Watch proves. And to think that the Obama administration had a golden opportunity to aid a true democratic uprising against the mullah’s brutal theocracy back in 2009, but instead let protesters be crushed. “Iran Sentences 18 Christians to Prison for Their Faith in New Crackdown on Christianity,”
by Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post, June 3, 2015:
Iranian Christians: A Christian woman prays at Saint Serkis church in central Tehran (Reuters/Morteza Nikoubazl)“
Iran’s revolutionary court is believed to have sentenced 18 Christian converts to prison for their faith in a new crackdown on Christianity in the Islamic Republic, a report said.
Fox News noted that the charges include evangelism, propaganda against the regime, and creating house churches to practice their faith. It added that the total sentences come close to 24 years, but it’s not known how many years each individual received, due to the lack of transparency in Iran’s judicial system.
“The cruelty of Iran’s dictatorial leaders knows no limits,” said Saba Farzan, the German-Iranian executive director of Foreign Policy Circle, a strategy think tank in Berlin.
A number of the imprisoned Christians were arrested in 2013, and sentenced in accordance with Article 500 of the Islamic Penal Code, which penalizes threats to Iran’s clerical leaders.
Morad Mokhtari, an Iranian convert to Christianity who fled the Islamic Republic in 2006, added: “Iranian religious authorities prefer that they [converts to Christianity] leave Iran because the authorities can’t control them,” Mokhatari said. “Just their name is evangelism. Imagine someone says he’s a Christian and has a Muslim name.”
Christians in Iran make up a tiny minority of the 78 million-strong population, and often face persecution from the government. Watchdog group Open Doors lists the country at No. 7 on its World Watch List of nations where Christians are most heavily targeted for their faith.Open Doors points out on its website that almost all Christian activity in Iran is considered illegal, “especially when it occurs in Persian languages — from evangelism to Bible training, to publishing Scripture and Christian books or preaching in Farsi.”
It added: “In 2014, at least 75 Christians were arrested. More Christians were sentenced to prison and pressure on those detained increased, including physical and mental abuse.”
Iran’s human rights record has faced great scrutiny, especially in light of a historic nuclear deal it reached earlier this year with the U.S. and other Western nations, which promises to lift international sanctions on Iran in exchange for restricting its nuclear program.
The American Center for Law and Justice and other groups have said that the deal should not be finalized until Iran shows clear signs it is willing to improve its treatment of Christians — and release the American Christians it currently holds in its prisons, including pastor Saeed Abedini.
U.S. Senator Mark Kirt, R-Ill., has added in a statement: “The Iranian regime’s systematic persecution of Christians, as well as Baha’is, Sunni Muslims, dissenting Shiite Muslims, and other religious minorities, is getting worse not better,” Kirt said.
“This is a direct consequence of President Obama’s decision to de-link demands for improvements in religious freedom and human rights in Iran from the nuclear negotiations.”
Iran: Pastor Saeed Abedini “viciously beaten” in prison, told only way out is to deny Christ
June 16, 2015
By Ralph Sidway/Jehad Watch http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/06/iran-pastor-viciously-beaten-in-prison-told-only-way-out-is-to-deny-christ
Prison dawah, Islamic style. Now imagine if a Muslim imam were incarcerated in Greece, an Orthodox Christian nation, and Christian inmates were savagely beating him in order to force him to convert to Christianity. Wouldn’t the Western media take notice then?
Pastor Saeed is one of the great Christian confessors of our time. His wife, Naghmeh Abedini labors unceasingly on his behalf, trying to raise American awareness of his plight and the fate of other Iranian Christians and Americans imprisoned in Iran, but the Obama administration blunts her efforts by squandering every opportunity to pressure Iranian officials on their behalf.
“Pastor Saeed Abedini ‘Viciously Beaten’ in Iranian Prison, Told His Only Way Out Is to Deny Jesus Christ,”
by Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post, June 11, 2015:
The Abedini family, before the mullahs arrested him for being a Christian. The Obama administration does nothing to help.
American pastor Saeed Abedini has reportedly been “viciously beaten” by fellow prisoners in an unprovoked attack in the Iranian prison where he’s being held. The pastor was punched in the face, leaving his eyes beaten black and blue, but prison guards intervened and prevented further injury.
The American Center for Law and Justice, the law group which represents his wife, Naghmeh Abedini, and the couple’s two children in the U.S., said that the prisoners also demolished a small table that the pastor had used to study and read during the beating that he endured last week.
Abedini was allowed to see a prison doctor, who determined that he does not have any broken bones. On Wednesday, he was able to see a family member who came to visit him and see his injuries first hand.
“It is heartbreaking to me and my family that Saeed was again beaten in prison. Saeed’s life is continuously threatened not only because he is an American, but also because he is a convert from Islam to Christianity. It’s time to get Saeed home before it is too late,” Naghmeh Abedini said in response to the news.
Back in May, Abedini marked his 35th birthday in prison, where he has spent over two and a half years for his Christian faith. He was arrested in Iran in 2012 while working on an orphanage for children, and later sentenced to eight years in prison.
The pastor has faced a number of beatings while in prison, both from other inmates and guards. The ACLJ and Naghmeh Abedini have expressed concerns that his condition worsens after each beating.
Last week, Abedini spoke before Congress, pleading for further actions to be taken to help free her husband.
“Over the last three years, I have had to watch my two children, Rebekka (who is 8 years old) and Jacob (who is 7 years old), suffer daily as they have grown up without a father or a mother,” Abedini said.
“I am here today as a single mother who is trying to be strong for her children, and as a wife who humbly admits, I need your help. I cannot bear to look at my children’s longing eyes one more time and explain to them why their daddy is still not home.”
She later told The Christian Post that Abedini has been told his prison sentence will be increased unless he denies his Christian faith — something she insists her husband will not do.
“The times they have moved him in and out of solitary [confinement] and the times they have threatened him, they said ‘You will stay here longer than the eight years and your only key to freedom is if you deny your Christian faith and you return to Islam.’ The guards have said that, officials have said that continuously,” Abedini said.
