Mohsen was born and lives in the city of Qom; from an Iranian mother, and exiled father, and due to complex and unfair rules regarding foreign nationals in the Islamic Republic, has been denied birth certificate.

ICC Note:

Mohsen Al, born in Iran to an exiled Iraqi father, was denied residency by the Iranian police and is scheduled to be deported to Iraq, Farsi Christian News Network reports. Mohsen converted to Christianity when coming across over Luke 6:29, “If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also. If someone demands your coat, offer your shirt also.”

5/29/2011 Iran (Farsi Christian News Network) – According to Farsi Christian News Network, Mohsen Al. a 22-year-old former student at the University of Arak, has been denied his residency documents on 18 April 2010, and Foreign Residents Police has informed him of the decision to deport “back” to Iraq.
Like many thousands of others, he is born to an exiled Iraqi in Iran. Known as Moa’vedin (Returnees), they are the descendants of forcibly exiled people during the dictatorial reign of Sadam for the crime of being non-Arab.

Mohsen was born and lives in the city of Qom; from an Iranian mother, and exiled father, and due to complex and unfair rules regarding foreign nationals in the Islamic Republic, has been denied birth certificate. His father was one of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi-Iranians forced out of Iraq during the 1970s by Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party, which in pursuit of its official policy of Arabizing of Iraq, expelled all Iraqi nationals of Iranian background. In fact, both his parents are Iranians, but for his father who has had both Iranian and Iraqi citizenship. His Iraqi citizenship however, has been withdrawn after his forced exile from Iraq.

Islamic Republic’s treatment of the exiled people has always been ambiguous and vague. To some individuals with connections and links to the regime and/or powerful individuals within the regime, goes official papers, birth certificates, and even citizenship. Some even have reached high office in the Islamic Republic. The former head of the Judiciary in the Islamic Republic, Shahroudi, and the current commander of the Basij forces are both of Iraqi Moa’vedins.

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Of his citizenship status, Mohsen informs the FCNN that: “A few years ago the Islamic Legislative Council passed a law under which those born to a foreign national father ; at reaching the age of 18,and continued residency in the country for an extra year; will be considered naturalized citizens. (Paragraph 5, Article 976 of Civil Code).

So accordingly I applied for citizenship, and got married, hoping that after 22 years of suffering I would be able to claim my rightful place as a legal citizen of the country of my birth; in fact the only country I have ever known. But after two appeals my hopes were brutally quashed when I was told that my request has ben turned down without any possibility of further appeals. I was thus left in a nightmare of official limbo, My marriage could not be registered and was declared null and void, and so I lost any hope of forming a family life. Unable to study, Work, Travel, or even own property, any hope of a normal life in my ancestral country of birth was thus vanished forever.

Having lost all hopes, while researching his case and seeking ways to address his situation any way he could, Mohsen accidentally comes across the Word of God in Luke 6:29

“If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also. If someone demands your coat, offer your shirt also “.

He says: “Yes, these words of Christ made me realize the depth of his love, of which I was unaware until then. The sort of Love which I had only felt the absence of in my heart, and found Faith in Jesus Christ our Lord. Later on I came to experience firsthand the sort of difficulties that Christian-Iranians are made to suffer everyday of their lives.

Since then, his personal blog Mohsen issues alongside the issues of Christians in Iran foreign nationals and refugees refers. Perhaps due to release this material that remained following the Foreign Nationals Department officials that he was Christian and he at the end of 1389 (February 2011) to extend the stay graphics cards will see him and he would not extend to the Foreigners Police Department introduced drawn. Where he detailed interrogation about his Christian faith and because what is published on his blog and a cross tattooed on his arm has to stay cards are banned.

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Iraq first among 10 countries in 2011, statistics of international human rights organizations is dangerous for Christians, to other species can be said for all Muslim countries Christians and new believers that are increasing are dangerous and the reason is that the sentence for apostasy Islam exists. A problem that my condition is very difficult is that I do not know Arabic and I am a Christian, I have an Iranian on the other hand, in a few time to visit the Iraqi embassy I realized that most Iraqis from Iran due to Iran’s interference in their hate.

Nobody will not homespun family and grew up in the heart to do it, but when he sees, with conditions that could not be there for him to live, be willing to leave the country in terms of living is lower country, the way that their fathers have come now to return and this is exactly what the government officials want it.

Mohsen wants all Christians in the world for him and hundreds like him to pray and international human rights organizations and refugee rights advocates and request a hearing to investigate his case is fair. He is a Christian who knows himself Iranian and not Iraqi. His question is why because of her faith and beliefs in a country where life is born and has grown to be denied?

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