ICC Note:
“The Tehran based daily Jomhouri-e-Eslami (meaning Republic of Islam) claimed ‘While western media keep reporting that people in Europe and America are converting to Islam, the agents of western political cliques claim that Iranian youth show a sincere interest in Christianity. These claims are being made to cover up the fact that western people are coming towards Islam.’ The statement was a reaction to a Mohabat News report that Christianity is spreading quickly among Iranian youth.
11/11/2011 Iran (Mohabat News) – Following a report by Mohabat News concerning the spread of Christianity among Iranian youth, the government supported daily, Jomhouri-e-Eslami (Islamic Republic) reacted by saying that the report is a claim made by the Western political clique!
According to Iranian Christian News Agency, Mohabat News, the Tehran based daily Jomhouri-e-Eslami (meaning Republic of Islam) claimed “While western media keep reporting that people in Europe and America are converting to Islam, the agents of western political cliques claim that Iranian youth show a sincere interest in Christianity. These claims are being made to cover up the fact that western people are coming towards Islam.” This government supported daily also said in another part of its article that “A person who introduced himself as the spokesman of the Iranian church of Europe said in an interview with a Farsi website that Iranian youth are learning about Christianity through the Internet and Christian Television Channels. He even claimed that people in the religious cities of Qom and Mashhad are showing more interest in Christianity than people in other cities.”
A portion of an article published on Sunday, 06 November 2011 by Mohabat News states “The broad range of Iranian people watching Christian television programs or accessing Christian websites, in addition to the number of contacts that people, especially from religious cities of Iran, make with Christian media, shows nothing but a growing interest of Iranian people in converting to Christianity.”
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