Iran regime accused of killing 19 Christians in anti-regime protests as persecution continues: watchdog

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s atrocities against demonstrators opposed to the authorities has reportedly resulted successful information forces sidesplitting astatine slightest 19 Iranian Christians, according to Article 18, an enactment that promotes spiritual state successful Iran.

Article 18 reported connected Feb. 9 that "The full fig of Christians confirmed to person been killed during the protests is astatine slightest 19, including members of Iran’s recognized (Armenians and Assyrians) and unrecognized (converts) communities."

According to the Article 18 statement, the Islamic Republic’s "brutal effect to past month’s wide demonstrations" resulted successful the information forces murdering Iranian Christians Nader Mohammadi, 35, and Zahra Arjomandi, 51, who were some changeable dormant connected Jan. 8 successful abstracted protests 1,000 miles apart.

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Iranians stitchery portion blocking a thoroughfare during a protestation successful Tehran, Iran connected Jan. 9, 2026.   (MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

Mohammadi was the begetter of 3 young children, and was killed successful Babol successful bluish Iran. Arjomandi, who was a parent of 2 children, died successful her son’s arms connected the Persian Gulf land of Qeshm, successful confederate Iran, noted Article 18.

The Iranian Christian website Mohabat News stated that authorities information forces refused to merchandise Arjomandi's assemblage for six days. Mohabat reported that her assemblage was lone released for burial nether "strict information measures", which included a media blackout and prohibiting a memorial service.

Mansour Borji, the enforcement manager for Article 18, told Fox News Digital that, "Today, Christians, similar millions of different Iranians, question the state and justness that they person been denied for astir 5 decades, and they cognize good that this comes astatine a price. Every twelvemonth galore Christians are arrested and imprisoned nether torturous conditions for practicing their close to spiritual freedom, wherever a elemental enactment similar praying unneurotic successful house-churches seems similar an enactment of civilian disobedience."

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Armed NOPO peculiar constabulary units are connected the country arsenic Iranians instrumentality to the streets successful the downtown Enghelab (Revolution) Square successful Tehran, Iran connected June 24, 2025. (Negar Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

He continued, "Our enactment considers the Islamic Republic’s massacre of each peaceful protesters a transgression against humanity that should not spell unpunished. There indispensable beryllium an extremity to the impunity that, for acold excessively long, has enabled this authorities to perpetrate crimes similar astatine location and abroad. Branding peaceful protesters arsenic ‘terrorists,’ and Christians that are persecuted each twelvemonth arsenic ‘Zionist mercenaries,’ is thing but scapegoating."

He warned that "The Islamic Republic's authorities has, since its inception, demonstrated each traits of a totalitarian state. Most Iranians person present travel to recognize that their cardinal rights person been taken distant from them, including the state to take one’s ain religion oregon belief, governmental self-determination and adjacent their manner choices. Christians were immoderate of the earliest to acquisition this, erstwhile an Anglican clergyman and person to Christianity, Rev. Arastoo Sayyah, was killed successful his religion bureau little than 200 hours aft the 1979 revolution."

A broad 2025 study titled, "The Tip of the Iceberg" astir the persecution of Iranian Christians was released by Article 18 successful collaboration with Open Doors, Christian Solidarity Worldwide and Middle East Concern.

A pistillate Iranian Christian lights a candle astatine the Saint Mary Chaldean-Assyrian Catholic Church, connected Christmas Eve, successful downtown Tehran, Iran connected Dec. 24, 2012.  (AP)

According to the "The Tip of the Iceberg" report, Mohammad Nasirpour, the lawman authoritative of Tehran and caput of the 33rd District Prosecutor’s office, stated successful his indictment against 4 Iranian Christians connected June 2022: "Armenian and Assyrian Christians successful the Protestant denomination, with their evangelical quality and ngo to Christianize Iran, are perceived arsenic a information menace to the Islamic Revolution, aimed astatine undermining the Islamic instauration of the Islamic Republic. It could beryllium said that Persian-speaking evangelical movements are supported by fundamentalist evangelical Christians and Zionists." 

According to a Feb. 10 study connected the website of Christianity Today, Iranian Christians privation President Trump to intervene to halt the Ayatollah’s authorities from continuing with its massacre of Iranians.

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"That’s astir apt 1 of the astir frustrating aspects of the full concern close now," said Shahrokh Afshar, laminitis of Fellowship of Iranian Christians. "Everyone was hoping helium would bash something," Afshar told the outlet aft the Iranian authorities killed thousands of protesters successful January, according to immoderate estimates.

Cars pain successful a thoroughfare during a protestation implicit the illness of the currency’s worth successful Tehran, Iran, Jan. 8, 2026. (Stringer/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS)

Fox News Digital has reported implicit the decades connected the Islamic Republic’s high-intensity persecution of Iranian Christians successful the aftermath of the increasing popularity of Christianity successful the Muslim-majority country. Iran’s authorities targets divers groups of Christians, including Evangelicals and Catholics. In 2017, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested 2 Christians – a parent and her lad – as portion of a brutal crackdown connected Catholicism successful the country’s West Azerbaijan Province.

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The family’s bibles and lit connected Christian theology were besides seized during the raid.

The United States State Department has designated Iran arsenic a "Country of Particular Concern" (CPC)" due to the fact that the Islamic authorities has "engaged successful oregon tolerated peculiarly terrible violations of spiritual freedom" with respect to violations of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.

The Iranian authorities -controlled statistical halfway of Iran claims determination are 117,700 Christians of recognized denominations arsenic of the 2016 census, according to the astir caller U.S. State Department study connected the plight of Iranian Christians. 

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However, the State Department noted that, "The Christian advocacy NGO Article 18 estimates determination are 500,000 to 800,000 Christians successful the country, portion the Christian advocacy NGO Open Doors International estimates the fig is 1.24 million. Christian NGOs study galore Christians are converts from Islam oregon different recognized faiths." The colonisation of Iran is astir 92 million.