The Iranian authorities are so deeply anti-Semitic that anything they dislike is “Zionist,” no matter what the facts of the case really are. These converts, however, are getting off easy: Shi’ite Islam, like Sunni Islam, prescribes the death penalty for apostasy:
Shaykh al-Kulayni narrates a sahíh (correct) hadith from `Ammãr as-Sãbãti who said: I heard (Imam) Abu `Abdullãh (as-Sãdiq) (a.s.) saying, “A Muslim from among the Muslims who renounces Islam and rejects the prophethood of Muhammad and considers him untrue, then verily his blood is lawful (mubãh) for anyone who hears that from him, his wife is to be separated from him the day he became murtad, his wealth will be divided among his heirs, and his wife will observe the `idda of a widow (i.e., four months). The Imam is obliged to kill him, and not ask him to seek forgiveness.” (Furu al-Kãfi, vol. 7, p. 257)
“Converts summoned to begin prison sentences for ‘spreading “Zionist” Christianity,’” Article 18, February 9, 2022:
Three Christian converts from the northern city of Rasht have been summoned to begin serving prison sentences of between two and five years for “acting against national security” by attending a house-church and “spreading ‘Zionist’ Christianity”.
Ramin Hassanpour, his wife Saeede, and another woman, Sakine (Mehri) Behjati, have until the end of February to hand themselves in to Branch 1 of the Office for the Execution of Judgments in Tehran’s 33rd district.
The two women are to serve two-year sentences, while Ramin’s sentence is five years.
A fourth member of their group, Hadi (Moslem) Rahimi, is already serving his own four-year sentence.
The four Christians, all members of the non-Trinitarian “Church of Iran”, were first arrested in February 2020.
In May 2020, they spent a week in Lakan Prison in Rasht, having been unable to afford the 500 million toman bail ($30,000) set for them after the charges against them were read out at Branch 10 of the Revolutionary Court in Rasht.
They were eventually released on reduced bail of 200 million tomans ($11,500).
However, they were sentenced in August 2020, and their appeals were rejected in September 2020….
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