In this mailing: Denis MacEoin: Forty Years of Iranian Intolerance Forty Years of Iranian Intolerance by Denis MacEoin  •  August 7, 2019 at 5:00 am          What, one has to ask, does Iran's Islamic regime have to fear from the country's Christians, Baha'is, Zoroastrians, Sufis, Sunni Muslims, or Jews? Yet its treatment of these minorities is so repressive that it seems not unreasonable to ask if the clerics might be afraid of what they consider challenges to their fantasy of pure Islamic identity. So why this persecution? Because they represent a challenge to the radical shari'a law doctrines of the clergy, who impose Ayatollah Khomeini's religio-politico system of Velayat-e Faqih (rule by the theocratic Islamic government). "If they [Muslims] had gotten rid of the punishment for apostasy, Islam would not exist today." – Islamic leader Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. The Iranian people who have been fighting for their freedom all these years deserve our immediate help. What does Iran's Islamic regime have to fear from the country's Christians, Baha'is, Zoroastrians, Sufis, Sunni Muslims, or Jews? Yet its treatment of these minorities is so repressive that it seems not unreasonable to ask if the clerics might be afraid of what they consider challenges to their fantasy of pure Islamic identity. Pictured: The destruction of a historic Baha'i cemetery in Shiraz, Iran, by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp. (Image source: Baha'i World News Service) The regime that currently rules Iran was set up after a revolution in early 1979, and after forty years remains in power. It will have escaped no one's attention that relations between Iran and the West, notably the United States, have never been healthy and in recent months have deteriorated further. Continue Reading Article