Christians in Iran Spend Christmas in Jail

As Christians around the world gather to celebrate the birth of Christ, some Christians in Iran are spending the holiday in jail.

The terrorist-sponsoring, radical Muslim dictatorship ruling Iran is an egregious abuser of civil rights, which is why both 2022 and 2023 saw mass anti-regime protests in the country. The Iranian authorities arrested thousands of protesters, and tortured and raped an unknown number. But there are also religious prisoners in Iran, as the government is aggressively anti-Christian.

Persecution.org (International Christian Concern or ICC) released its 2023 report on the world’s worst persecutors of Christians, and Iran made the list for the harshness of its anti-Christian persecution and policies. Ayatollah Khamenei’s regime has no tolerance for any but those who practice their own specific bloody, vicious brand of Islam.