NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s atrocities against demonstrators opposed to the regime has reportedly resulted in security forces killing at least 19 Iranian Christians<\/a>, according to Article 18, an organization that promotes religious freedom in Iran.<\/p>\n Article 18 reported on Feb. 9 that “The total number of Christians confirmed to have been killed during the protests is at least 19, including members of Iran\u2019s recognized (Armenians and Assyrians) and unrecognized (converts) communities.”<\/p>\n According to the Article 18 statement, the Islamic Republic\u2019s “brutal response to last month\u2019s mass demonstrations<\/a>” resulted in the security forces murdering Iranian Christians Nader Mohammadi, 35, and Zahra Arjomandi, 51, who were both shot dead on Jan. 8 in separate protests 1,000 miles apart.<\/p>\n INSIDE TRUMP\u2019S IRAN WARNING \u2014 AND THE UNEXPECTED PAUSE THAT FOLLOWED<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on Jan. 9, 2026. \u00a0<\/span> (MAHSA \/ Middle East Images \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Mohammadi was the father of three young children, and was killed in Babol in northern Iran. Arjomandi, who was a mother of two children, died in her son\u2019s arms on the Persian Gulf island of Qeshm, in southern Iran, noted Article 18.<\/p>\n The Iranian Christian website Mohabat News stated that regime security forces refused to release Arjomandi’s body for six days. Mohabat reported that her body was only released for burial under “strict security measures”, which included a media blackout and prohibiting a memorial service.<\/p>\n Mansour Borji, the executive director for Article 18, told Fox News Digital that, “Today, Christians, like millions of other Iranians, seek the freedom and justice that they have been denied for nearly five decades, and they know well that this comes at a price. Every year many Christians<\/a> are arrested and imprisoned under torturous conditions for practicing their right to religious freedom, where a simple act like praying together in house-churches seems like an act of civil disobedience.”<\/p>\n IRAN WILL RETALIATE ‘WITH EVERYTHING WE HAVE’ IF US ATTACKS, SENIOR DIPLOMAT WARNS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Armed NOPO special police units are on the scene as Iranians take to the streets in the downtown Enghelab (Revolution) Square in Tehran, Iran on June 24, 2025.<\/span> (Negar Middle East Images\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n He continued, “Our organization considers the Islamic Republic\u2019s massacre of all peaceful protesters a crime against humanity that should not go unpunished. There must be an end to the impunity that, for far too long, has enabled this regime to commit crimes like at home and abroad. Branding peaceful protesters as \u2018terrorists,\u2019 and Christians that are persecuted every year as \u2018Zionist mercenaries,\u2019 is nothing but scapegoating.”<\/p>\n He warned that “The Islamic Republic’s regime has, since its inception, demonstrated all traits of a totalitarian state. Most Iranians have now come to realize that their fundamental rights have been taken away from them, including the freedom to choose one\u2019s own religion or belief, political self-determination and even their lifestyle choices. Christians were some of the earliest to experience this, when an Anglican priest and convert to Christianity, Rev. Arastoo Sayyah, was killed in his church office less than 200 hours after the 1979 revolution.”<\/p>\n A comprehensive 2025 report titled<\/a>, “The Tip of the Iceberg” about the persecution of Iranian Christians was released by Article 18 in collaboration with Open Doors, Christian Solidarity Worldwide and Middle East Concern.<\/p>\n A female Iranian Christian lights a candle at the Saint Mary Chaldean-Assyrian Catholic Church, on Christmas Eve, in downtown Tehran, Iran on Dec. 24, 2012.\u00a0<\/span> (AP)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n According to the “The Tip of the Iceberg” report, Mohammad Nasirpour, the deputy prosecutor of Tehran and head of the 33rd District Prosecutor\u2019s office, stated in his\u00a0indictment against four Iranian Christians on June 2022: “Armenian and Assyrian Christians in the Protestant denomination<\/a>, with their evangelical nature and mission to Christianize Iran, are perceived as a security threat to the Islamic Revolution, aimed at undermining the Islamic foundation of the Islamic Republic. It could be said that Persian-speaking evangelical movements are supported by fundamentalist evangelical Christians and Zionists.”\u00a0<\/p>\n According to a Feb. 10 report on the website of Christianity Today, Iranian Christians want President Trump<\/a> to intervene to stop the Ayatollah\u2019s regime from continuing with its massacre of Iranians.<\/p>\n RUBIO REVOKES IRANIAN OFFICIALS’ US TRAVEL PRIVILEGES OVER DEADLY PROTEST CRACKDOWN KILLING THOUSANDS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “That\u2019s probably one of the most frustrating aspects of the whole situation right now,” said Shahrokh Afshar, founder of Fellowship of Iranian Christians. “Everyone was hoping he would do something,” Afshar told the outlet after the Iranian authorities killed thousands of protesters in January, according to some estimates.<\/a><\/p>\n Cars burn in a street during a protest over the collapse of the currency\u2019s value in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 8, 2026.<\/span> (Stringer\/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Fox News Digital has reported over the decades on the Islamic Republic\u2019s high-intensity persecution of Iranian Christians in the wake of the growing popularity of Christianity in the Muslim-majority country. Iran\u2019s regime targets diverse groups of Christians, including Evangelicals and Catholics. In 2017<\/a>, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested two Christians \u2013 a mother and her son \u2013\u00a0as part of a brutal crackdown on Catholicism in the country\u2019s West Azerbaijan Province.<\/p>\n STATE DEPARTMENT DEMANDS IRAN HALT EXECUTION OF 19-YEAR-OLD WRESTLING STAR AS IOC REMAINS SILENT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The family\u2019s bibles and literature on Christian theology were also seized during the raid.<\/p>\n The United States State Department<\/a>\u00a0has designated Iran as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC)” because the Islamic regime has “engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom” with respect to violations of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.<\/p>\n The Iranian regime -controlled statistical center of Iran claims there are 117,700 Christians of recognized denominations as of the 2016 census, according to the most recent U.S. State Department report<\/a> on the plight of Iranian Christians.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"Iranian](\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1200\/675\/iran-protests.jpg?ve=1&tl=1\")
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