Facing Execution for the ‚Crime‘ of Being a Christian In Iran

Den Solaranlagenvertreter Jan van Aken wird es von seiner Geschäftsreise sicher nicht abhalten, es geht eben nur um das Leben eines Christen und nicht um Mohammedkarikaturen:

In 2010, the Iranian regime carried out 546 executions, more than at any other time during the preceding decade, and representing an increase of around 25 per cent on the previous year. Increasingly, execution is becoming Tehran’s favored method for dealing with anyone it deems an opponent — like Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor who has refused to recant his Christian faith.
Pastor Nadarkhani’s case is another grim illustration of the volatile situation faced by religious minorities living under Iran’s Islamist clerics. Even though the state formally recognizes the existence of Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians, these minorities are under no illusions about their subordinate status. […]
Pastor Nadarkhani’s embrace of Christianity, is a prime example of „moharebeh,“ and carries the penalty of death. This is despite the fact that Nadarkhani maintains he has never been a Muslim as an adult. But an Islamic court has determined that he has Islamic ancestry and therefore must recant his faith.
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