00:00:00.000did you know that christianity is the fastest growing religion in occupied iran you heard1.00
00:00:05.360that correctly iran the country that has been occupied by the most brutal islamic dictatorship0.71
00:00:12.240for the last 47 years the country where the islamic dictatorship claims that iranians are 99.9
00:00:19.680percent muslim is actually not a muslim country in fact recent studies show that less than 30
00:00:27.600of Iranians identify as Muslim. By the way, that study was taken about four or five years ago,
00:00:34.080so you can imagine the number of people who actually identify as Muslims is even less.
00:00:39.440I would say it's probably less than 20%. But don't take my word for it. Here's what
00:00:44.880the Islamic regime itself had to say about Islam in Iran just two years ago.
00:00:49.840senior cleric claims religion in iran week 50 000 mosques closed this is from june 2023 by the way
00:01:01.380so this is the cleric and his name is mohammed abuel gossim dulabi iranian president ibrahim
00:01:08.600ray sees special representative in clerical affairs a senior islamic cleric says around
00:01:15.38050,000 of Iran's 75,000 mosques are closed, showing the declining numbers of Iranians
00:01:23.620attending. 50,000 mosques of the 75,000 mosques in Iran have been shut down due to lack of
00:01:33.560attendance. I will make another video in the future explaining why Iran is not a Muslim1.00
00:01:38.380country, but for the purposes of this video, I just want to focus on Christianity. The reason0.92
00:01:43.100I shared this article with you is so that you can now see that I'm not making it up when I say0.95
00:01:48.540Christianity is rapidly growing and Islam is dying in Iran. Before the Islamic regime took over in0.87
00:01:56.1401979, turning Iran into a 7th century Islamic hellhole, Iran was actually a rapidly modernizing0.70
00:02:03.140country under our beloved Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In fact, both the Shah and the Shah Banu0.84
00:02:10.520were huge proponents of westernization, economic development, and women's rights.
00:02:17.200Iran, before 1979, under the Shah and the Shah Banu, was also a bastion of religious freedom.
00:02:24.060Muslims, Jews, Christians, Baha'is, Zoroastrians, agnostic, any and all religions lived freely in
00:02:32.420Iran and were able to openly practice their religion without fear of persecution. All of
00:02:38.620that changed when the Islamic regime took over Iran in 1979 and imposed Islamic Sharia law on
00:02:45.300the country. In the blink of an eye, Iran went from being a paradise to a prison governed by0.71
00:02:52.340Sharia law. Apostasy, aka leaving Islam, became a crime punishable by death. Churches were outlawed,0.96
00:03:00.620converts were hunted down, and Farsi language Bibles became contraband. Any challenge to the
00:03:07.000Islamic regime's authority was swiftly and cruelly crushed. Yet today, despite every effort by the0.86
00:03:15.260Islamic dictatorship to force Iranians to be Muslim, Christianity is exploding in Iran. In fact,0.85
00:03:24.220occupied Iran has one of the fastest growing Christian populations in the world. It's not1.00
00:03:31.960happening in cathedrals. It's not happening out in the streets. It's happening quietly behind
00:03:37.540closed doors, in underground churches, in secret gatherings in people's homes. One of the reasons
00:03:44.020that many Iranians are now turning to Christianity is because after 40 years of living under a brutal0.82
00:03:50.820Islamic dictatorship, they know what Sharia law is like. They understand the cruelty. They've seen0.99
00:03:58.160the hate, and they don't want anything to do with it. And so many of them are not only leaving Islam,
00:04:04.360but they are turning to Christianity, and they are turning to the love that Jesus Christ provides.
00:04:11.100And the more the government cracks down, the more Iranians seem to turn to Christianity.
00:04:17.120Now, of course, we don't have official numbers because, again, leaving Islam is a crime punishable
00:04:23.700by death under Sharia law, but we know that there are at least 1 million Iranians who have converted
00:04:30.980to Christianity. Being a Christian in Iran is very dangerous, guys. This is not a joke.0.98
00:04:37.340Being a Christian in occupied Iran is incredibly dangerous. Being a Christian in a country governed0.99
00:04:43.800by Sharia law is basically a death sentence. Iranians in occupied Iran who have recently0.96
00:04:50.620left Islam and converted to Christianity are constantly being persecuted and jailed. Less
00:04:57.580than a month ago, three Iranian converts were given prison sentences for the crime of leaving
00:05:04.460Islam and converting to Christianity. Three Christian converts just began two-year prison
00:05:11.420sentences due to their involvement in a house church. Pray for Hannah Golomi, Daniel Mohammadi
00:05:18.540and Tehmur Hosseini, an Afghan believer, who are today behind bars for following Christ.
00:05:25.800Here's another example of how the religion of peace treats people who leave Islam and convert
00:05:31.720to Christianity. Five Iranian Christian converts sentenced to stiff prison terms. This was just on0.68
00:05:39.620December 17. So this was only like, this was literally last week that this happened.
00:05:44.300a seriously ill iranian christian convert who broke her spine in ivian prison is among
00:05:52.520five christians handed combined prison terms totaling more than 50 years a rights group said
00:05:58.820the national security offenses for which they were convicted involve house church worship
00:06:06.040and christian activity online according to a uk-based rights group article 18
00:06:12.420Now I already know what the Islamic regime apologists are going to say. They're going to say, well, Christianity is one of the recognized religions in the Iranian constitution. Yeah, that's because the Iranian constitution was actually drafted in 1909.
00:06:30.4201909. The current constitution was created before the Islamic dictatorship took over in 1979.
00:06:39.760The only reason that the Islamic dictatorship has kept the constitution is because they like to use0.92
00:06:44.820it to try and hide and deny the very real persecution of religious and ethnic minorities
00:06:51.820in occupied Iran, Christians being one of them. And as I just showed you, Christians in Iran are
00:06:58.120literally being jailed because if they speak about Christianity or if they attend Christian churches,
00:07:03.860the Islamic dictatorship sees that as a sign of national security threat. Even though the0.51
00:07:11.280terrorist Islamic dictatorship occupying Iran has been cracking down on Christian converts in
00:07:17.160occupied Iran in order to scare Iranians into remaining Muslim, it's not working. In fact,
00:07:24.240Christianity is the fastest growing religion in occupied Iran. There's a lot more to say
00:07:29.680about religion in Iran and what's actually happening and what information you're not
00:07:34.640getting from the mainstream media. But for now, I just wanted to wish all Christians around the
00:07:39.080world, and especially Christians in Iran who are literally risking their lives just by
00:07:45.120practicing their faith, I want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas.