The former parliamentary representative of Iran’s Assyrian minority has strongly criticised Christians for participating in or encouraging participation in the ongoing protests.

The UN General Assembly has passed a draft resolution highlighting the “deteriorating” human-rights situation in Iran, including “lethal force resulting […]

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has condemned the sentencing to death of an Iranian protester on “religiously-grounded charges” and warned of the “credible” threat of “large-scale executions in the coming weeks”.

Iran’s Assyrian Christian minority have been warned by their parliamentary representative and church leaders to have no further involvement in […]

More than 30 lawyers, including at least three involved in defending Christian converts, have been arrested in recent weeks in cities across Iran.

Accusations that members of religious minorities, including Christians, are engaged in unspecified “actions against national security” are deliberately vague in […]

How much weight should be given to the testimony of church leaders in assessing the credibility of asylum-seekers’ claims to have converted to Christianity?

An Iranian Anglican minister and his family, who had been threatened with deportation from Turkey, have now been safely resettled […]

Sahar Dashti experienced racism as a child as one of very few dark-skinned children in her city, so she was […]

My name is Masoumeh Dashti Aqizadeh, but I prefer to be called Sahar. I was born in November 1981 into a Muslim family in Lenjan County in Isfahan Province. I remember well the day I became a Christian – it was 23 October 2001…