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Iran: Maryam Rajavi congratulates all Christians on birth of Jesus Christ |
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Sunday, 25 December 2005 |
 NCRI - In a message on Christmas, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance’s
President-elect, congratulated the birth of Jesus Christ to all
Christians in Iran and around the world. Noting that God had sent
Jesus to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives,
and to set at liberty them that are bruised, and to prepare for the
demise of the oppressors, Mrs. Rajavi emphasized that Jesus’ cry can
still be heard today from beside hanging cranes in Iran where Iranian
youth and children are hanged, crying out that “the Son of man is not
come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them” and saying, “weightier
matters of the law” are “judgment, mercy, and faith.”
Mrs. Rajavi paid homage to the memories of Chrisitan Bishop Haik
Hovespian-Mehr and Pastor Mehdi Dibaj and Bishop Tateos Michaelian who
were brutally murdered by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry. She also
commemorated the memories of Christian combatants in the ranks of the
PMOI and National Liberation Army of Iran, Yarom Sataghian and Philip
Youssefieh, who gave their lives in the struggle against the regime.
Mrs. Rajavi said that the Iranian people have, regardless of their
religion, lived for centuries in peace and friendship with Christians
and followers of other religions and love and respect them very much.
It was Khomeini and the ruling clerics now who have mercilessly
attacked Christians and followers of other religions and discriminate
and disrespect them and limit their way of life, and their religious
education and practice.
Mrs. Rajavi regretted that in the extremely repressive circumstances
since Ahmadinejad has taken office, a Christian compatriot was stabbed
to death in Gonbad Kavoos and ten others were tortured. She noted that
the clerical regime’s president has lost no opportunity to threaten the
followers of Judaism. However, she said, true Islam is a religion of
mercy, tolerance and peace and does not allow discrimination and
injustice.
The President-elect of the Iranian Resistance said in 2004, the
representatives of hundreds of millions of Christians in different
parliaments voiced support for the Iranian people’s resistance and
denounced illegitimate deals between various governments and the regime
in Tehran and also condemned accusations made against the Resistance
movement of terrorism.
She added that contrary to the clerical regime, whose very inhuman
nature and structure is entwined with religious discrimination and the
violation of the rights of Christians and the followers of other
religions and beliefs, the platform of the National Council of
Resistance of Iran rests on rejecting religious discrimination and
oppression and prohibits any discrimination with respect to the
followers of different religions and denominations in the enjoyment of
individual and social rights. The NCRI platform emphasizes the
separation of religion and state and “the freedom of religion and
denominations” and considers the prohibition of any type of enquiry
into the beliefs of others to be a “necessity for respecting human
dignity” of all. The platform calls for respect for all religions
and denominations and stresses that “under no circumstance is any
religion or denomination recognized as possessing special privileges or
rights, rejecting all forms of discrimination against the followers of
different religions and denominations.”
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 25, 2004 |
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