Iran arrests demonstrators in 2nd day of anti-regime protests

If that's the case we're doing a pretty lousy job of it...





Our authorities are much more likely to stand back and let rioters do what they want...

 

No read the post, nowhere does the poster state he is rooting for the Iranian regime, you simply made that up!

 

Iran is a hard situation for the West. In spite of the government's proxy wars there are many, many Christians in Iran.. and many good Iranians who are also victims of the current regime.

Trump is NOT the man to work on this problem.

 

Now THAT we can agree upon.

 

List of churches in Tehran.

Armenian Orthodox[edit]

• Sarkis Cathedral (Surp Sarkis) Armenian Apostolic Cathedral and Prelacy - KarimKhan Blvd. - 1970
• Saint George (Surp Gevork) Armenian Apostolic Church - Shahpur Ave. - 1795
• Sts. Thaddeus-Bartholomew (Surp Tadevos-Bartoghimevos) Armenian Apostolic Church - Tehran Grand Bazaar) - 1768
• Saint Minas (Surp Minas) Armenian Apostolic Church - Vanak - 1854
• Holy Mary (Surp Asdvadzadzin) Armenian Apostolic Church - Qavam St. - 1945
• Holy Translators (Surp Targmanchats) Armenian Apostolic Church - Vahidieh - 1868
• Saint Gregory the Illuminator (Surp Grigor Lusavoritch) Armenian Apostolic Church - Majidieh - 1982
• Saint Vardan (Surp Vardanantz) Armenian Apostolic Church - Heshmatieh - 1986
• Saint John (Surp Hovhannes) Chapel - Doulab Armenian Cemetery - 1936
• Saint Stephen (Surp Stepanos) Chapel - Nor Burastan Armenian Cemetery - 1974
• Holy Cross (Surp Khatch) Chapel - Ararat Stadium - 1987

Assyrian Orthodox[edit]

• Saint George (Mar Gevargiz) Assyrian Church of the East - Bagh-e-Shah - 1962
• Holy Mary (Mart Maryam) Assyrian Church of the East - Sarbaz St. - 1978

Orthodox expatriate community churches[edit]

Greek church of Virgin Mary, Tehran

• Holy Mary Greek Orthodox Church - Mofatteh St. - 1941
• St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, Tehran - Mofatteh St. - 1945
• Russian Orthodox Chapel - Dulab Russian Cemetery

Catholic churches[edit]
Armenian Catholic churches[edit]

Armenian-Catholic church in Tehran, (2011)

• Saint Gregory the Illuminator (Surp Grigor Lusavoritch) Armenian Catholic Church - Ghazali St. - 1954
• Saint Joseph (Surp Hovsep) Armenian Catholic Church - Mirdamad Blvd.- 1963
• Holy Mary (Surp Asdvadzadzin) Armenian Catholic Church - Yusefabad
• Armenian Catholic Chapel - Dulab Armenian Catholic Cemetery - 1946

Assyrian Catholic churches[edit]

• Saint Joseph (Mar Yozef) Assyrian Catholic Church - Forsat St. - 1950
• Holy Virgin Assyrian Catholic Church - Appadana St.
• Assyrian Catholic Chapel - Eslamshahr Catholic Cemetery - 1967

Roman Catholic churches[edit]

• Cathedral of the Consolata
• Saint Abraham's Church, Dominican Catholic Church - Jamalzadeh Shomali St. - 1966
• Holy Heart of Christ Roman Catholic Church - Old Shemiran Road - 1920
• Holy Mary Roman Catholic Church - France St. - 1937
• St. Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) Roman Catholic Church (Lazarists) - Taheri Str, off Ferdowsi St. - 1945
• St. Joseph's Cathedral

Protestant churches[edit]

Interior of the German Speaking Church in Tehran (2011)
Evangelical Church of Iran[edit]

• St. Peter Protestant Church (American) - Qavam St. - 1873
• Emmanuel Protestant Church - Tavanir St. - 1972
• Saint John (Surp Hovhannes) Armenian Protestant Church - Nader Shah Ave. - 1964
• St. Thomas (Mar Toma) Assyrian Evangelical Church - Amirabad - 1967

Anglican church[edit]

• St. Paul Anglican Church - Hafez St. - 1967

Assemblies of God[edit]

• Jama'at-e Rabbani (Assemblies of God) Church - Takht-e-Jamshid Ave. - 1971

Brotherhood church[edit]

• Armenian Evangelical Brotherhood Church - Aban St. - 1970
• Assyrian Brotherhood Church - ShahrAra St.

Adventists[edit]

• Seventh-Day Adventist Church - Rasht St. - 1955

Expatriate community churches[edit]

• Christuskirche (Christ Church), Teheran - Shahid Sheydayi Str.123/1 off Yakhchal St. - 1963

 

Wow, the Iranian government has that kind of tolerance for Christians within their borders. That’s very interesting.

 

Interesting, if Israel does not get what it wants it is because of Jew-haters, any evidence for that?

 

Well we did with the Bundy Bois, agreed, even let them point weapons at the feds didn't we now.

Occupy, DAPL; go up against the Wall Street/donor/"job creator" class and see what the response is. Your society is in for a long ongoing resistance, and for very good reason. A corporate police state that murders unarmed citizens in the streets with impunity should expect more.

 

Evidently, you failed to notice that the pictures I posted were of the "corporate police state" letting protesters riot instead of murdering them.

The same thing happened with the OccuTards when they went up against the Wall Street/donor/"job creator" class - they were, with very few exceptions, allowed to break the law and riot with impunity. In fact, the only murders (and rapes) that were committed were committed by the ANSWERniks and assorted riff-raff in the OccuTard camps.

As for your "long ongoing resistance"...

 

I have no doubt the corporate state media machine painted it thusly for mass consumption, that was not in question.

 

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/iran/report-iran/

Freedom of religion and belief
Members of religious minorities, including Baha’is, Sufis, Yaresan (Ahl-e Haq), Christian converts and Sunni Muslims, faced discrimination in law and practice, including in education, employment and inheritance, and were persecuted for practising their faith.

The authorities engaged in hate speech and allowed hate crimes to be committed with impunity against Baha’is, and imprisoned scores of Baha’is on trumped-up national security charges imposed for peacefully practising their religious beliefs. Allegations of torture of 24 Baha’is in Golestan Province were not investigated. The authorities forcibly closed down dozens of Baha’i-owned businesses and detained Baha’i students who publicly criticized the authorities for denying them access to higher education.

The authorities detained tens of Christian converts after raiding house churches where they peacefully gathered to worship. Sites considered sacred by Baha’is, Sunni Muslims and Yaresan, including cemeteries and places of worship, were destroyed by men believed to be affiliated with security forces.

Spiritual teacher Mohammad Ali Taheri remained in solitary confinement in Section 2A of Evin Prison despite completing, in February, a five-year sentence for “insulting Islamic sanctities” for establishing the Erfan-e Halgheh spiritual doctrine and group. His followers continued to be arbitrarily arrested and detained.

Discrimination – ethnic minorities
Iran’s disadvantaged ethnic minorities, including Ahwazi Arabs, Azerbaijani Turks, Baluchis, Kurds and Turkmen, remained subject to entrenched discrimination, curtailing their access to employment, adequate housing, political office, and their exercise of cultural, civil and political rights. Continued economic neglect of minority-populated regions by state authorities further entrenched poverty and the marginalization of ethnic minorities.

Members of minorities who spoke out against violations of their political, cultural and linguistic rights faced arbitrary arrest, torture and other ill-treatment, grossly unfair trials, imprisonment, and in some cases the death penalty.

Dozens of Kurds were reportedly arrested without warrant for their real or perceived affiliations with the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran after it renewed armed opposition to the Iranian authorities in March. Scores of Kurds served prison sentences or remained under sentence of death for membership of or sympathy with banned Kurdish opposition groups.

Ahwazi Arabs were imprisoned and subjected to torture and other human rights violations. They complained that the authorities repressed expressions of Arabic culture, including dress and poetry.

Security forces continued to repress protests by ethnic minorities. In July and August, they detained several members of the Azerbaijani Turkish ethnic group after largely peaceful demonstrations in several cities sparked by a report in the newspaper Tarheh No which Azerbaijani Turks deemed offensive. Police also beat protesters.

 

One would think that Iran wouldn’t allow Christians to practice their faith and build all those beautiful churches, shrug.

 

What is what? Part of it? Context? Or the entire thing?

 

Shia Muslim Iran also supports Christian Armenia against 90% shia muslim Azerbaijan...

There are 40 million shia Turks (Turkmen + Azerbaijani Turks) living in Iran... Iranian government have long been trying to assimilate them by stupid discrimination tactics like naming Turks of Iran as "Azeris", actually a name for place/region in Iran, and use the term in public media in a way as if they are no Turks but some different ethnicity. Now their partners in Turkey today trying to influence public opinion by asking if Turkish nationalism is a true one when it is against the Iranian regime... Ha ha ha... I think these morons think of everybody else as themselves and suppose nobody would be disgusted by their sick ideals and ask them about the decades-long Iranian support to Armenia against Azerbaijan Turks, who are the only true brothers to Turks of Turkiye. Pathetic....

 

No elections were influenced, and no Americans having problems with the Russians. It is Liberals who needed splanation for Hillary's loss, who are having problems with Russians.

 

G*d bless

 

So far, so good. I approve.

 

That day, June 15, 2009 Obama gave remarks on the situation. He said he was watching the news from Iran. It is "up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran's leaders will be," he said, adding that "we respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran."
But, Obama said, "I am deeply troubled by the violence that I've been seeing on television. I think that the democratic process -- free speech, the ability of people to peacefully dissent -- all those are universal values and need to be respected."
Pity that he didn’t acknowledge the sovereignty of Libya and Syria the same way.

 

Yes, on CNN. At least, he did not drew another red line in the sand.

The situation in Iran is encouraging, to be sure. Many a friends do I have in Iran... best wishes to them all.

 

Well I wish your friends well. And if this turns into another blood bath like Syria, they’ll need it.

 

Up to Iranians, and I hope for the best.

 

We can agree on both those points!

 

Not a Fan of Trump as Most here will already know But at Least he is speaking out a sign of leadership!, Obama's foreign Policy was totally useless, the worse blunder of any western political figure in my lifetime was Obama's retreat on Iran and Syria. Susan Rice urges Trump admin to be quite? Give me a Break Susan take your own advise!

 

So then you admit that Erdo is a fool for trying to placate the iranian filth regime because they are subjugating millions of ethnic Turks, right?

 

Retreat on Syria??? Obama dispatched Hillary Clinton three times to the UN to secure a resolution for the use of force in Syria, all three times China and Russia vetoed pointing to the abuse of UNSCR 1973 in Libya. Without the cover of legitimacy from the UN Britain withdrew their support for a military solution, Obama asked congress for an authorization and they left for recess and 70% of Americans were against another war in the Middle East. I know that Obama could have been the belligerent and have done the same thing he did in Libya, but short of that. There was no retreat.

In fact, failing to get any of that support to enforce his red line (that should have never been drawn) he then took the arms confiscated from Gaddafi’s army annexed by the CIA at Benghazi and began smuggling them to Turkey for distribution amongst the AQ/al Nusra and Islamic State fighters that tainted the ranks of the FSA. A violation of international law!!!! Oh Obama was quite the war monger and had no problem projecting force. His predator drone killings done outside the legitimacy of law, more resembling assasinations without due process, was George Bush on steroids. He did pursue a reckless foreign policy, but not for the reasons you suggest.

Concerning Iran, a far better outcome than Libya and Syria. And the intelligence services of several countries certify Iranian compliance as has president Trump, twice now.