IRAN ORDERS CHRISTIAN CHILDREN TO STUDY QUR’AN OR FACE EXPULSION FROM SCHOOL

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

There is constant low-level pressure upon non-Muslims in Iran, with
an eye toward compelling them to convert to Islam out of sheer
exhaustion over the difficulty of living as a non-Muslim. This is also
one of the motivations behind the dhimmitude system: to make life as a
non-Muslim so uncomfortable that one converts to Islam simply for some
breathing room.

“Iran Threatens To Expel Christian Children From Schools,” by Stefan J. Bos, BosNewsLife, September 7, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)– Iran’s government has ordered
children belonging to families of one of the country’s largest house
church movements to study the Koran and Shi’a Islam teachings or face
expulsion from school, a church official confirmed to BosNewsLife
Thursday, September 7. The Church of Iran movement is also concerned
about four jailed members saying one of them “was deported to a feared
secret police facility” in the southern city of Shiraz.

These latest education measures and pressure on Christian prisoners
are part of a government campaign against Bible believing Christians in
the Islamic nation, according to Christians familiar with the situation.
“Right now [Iranian President Hassan] Rouhani wants to prove that he is
a good Muslim by persecuting Christians,” said Firouz Khandjani, a
Church of Iran council member. “Most of the new Christians are former
Muslims.”

The government-backed policy adopted by school authorities in Shiraz
and the coastal city of Rasht deprives Christian children of primary and
secondary education unless they agree to religious instruction that
does not conform to their faith, he confirmed.

Parents and other believers might also face prison for openly
confessing that Jesus is Lord, seen as blasphemy by strict Islamic
authorities, BosNewsLife learned. The Church of Iran said it now fears
mistreatment of active members Mohammad Roghangir, Bijan Haghighi,
Eskandar Rezaie and Surush Saraie who are behind bars in Shiraz.

In 2013, Roghangir was sentenced to six years and Massoud Rezaie to
five years imprisonment on what their friends viewed as “trumped-up
charges” such as “action against the national security” and “propaganda
against the system.”

NEW DETENTION

Saraie was “re-arrested” at his home in Shiraz after being released
early from Adelabad Prison in November 2015 while Rezaie, was detained
again in July, after being released temporarily from Adelabad Prison in
December 2015, Christians said.

Both men were initially captured in October 2012, along with five
other Christians, during a police raid on a prayer meeting, and found
guilty of threatening national security and propaganda against the
Islamic state. Saraie received a two-and-a-half year sentence in July
2013, later upheld on appeal, which he began serving in July 2014.
Rezaie received a one year sentence, which started in July 2015.

One of them, Surush Saraie, was recently taken to Pelak 100, a
notorious detention center run by the Intelligence Services (VEVAK),
Khandjani explained. “It’s like the Gestapo [during World War Two].”
While there, attempts were allegedly made to pressure him into making
confessions, he said. “Usually they want to make us confess that we
receive money from Britain or the United States to shake Islamic
values,” Khandjani noted.

“The authorities are trying to eradicate Christianity, just as the
Islamic State group, but smarter,” claimed Khandjani, who is himself in
hiding….