Just to piss off all the "bomb, bomb Iran" arm-chair "warriors on this thread...a bit of history other than your usual "...all I need to know I learn from FOX..."
Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic relations, stated, "....there are lots of Christian churches and synagogues in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Jordan, Indonesia, Qatar, Kuwait. … If you go to any number of so-called Muslim countries you will see thriving Christian and Jewish populations." One member of the Iranian Parliament is Jewish....The only one where you don't see it, where you can't have a Christian church or synagogue is Saudi Arabia"........[our "ally" and gas station.]
Bwa-ha-ha. Do you know why Christianity exists in Iran currently? Most of the Armenian Christians fled Iran during the Iran/Iraq war in the 80s. Now, they are mostly converts from the Muslim religion. They are considered second class citizens (or dhimmis) and there are not LOTS of them, as the Christian population in Iran is extremely low and they are discriminated against. You people are SO naive.
Religion in Iran - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
According to the CIA World Factbook, around 90%
[1] of
Iranians associate themselves with the
Shi'a branch of
Islam, the official state religion, and about 9% with the
Sunniand
Sufi branches of Islam. The remaining 0.9% associate themselves with non-Islamic
religious minorities, including
Bahá'ís,
Mandeans,
Yarsanis,
Zoroastrians,
Jews, and
Christians.
[2] The latter three
minority religions are officially recognized and protected, and have reserved seats in the
Iran parliament. Zoroastrianism was once the majority religion, though today Zoroastrians number only in the tens of thousands.
[3] Iran is home to the second largest Jewish community in the
Muslim World.
[4] The
Bahá'í Faith, Iran's largest non-Muslim religious minority, is not officially recognized, and has been persecuted during its existence in Iran.
[5][6][7][8]
The Iranian government does not officially recognise the existence of non-religious Iranians. This leaves the true representation of the religious split in Iran unknown as all non-religious, spiritual, atheist, agnostic and converts away from Islam are likely to be included within the government statistic of the 99% Muslim majority.
[1] Sunnism was the predominant form theology before the devastating Mongol conquest, but subsequently Shi'ism became dominant.
The constitution of the
Islamic Republic of Iran recognizes Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism as official religions. Article 13 of the Iranian Constitution, recognizes them as
People of the Book and they are granted the right to exercise religious freedom in Iran.
[42][48] Five of the 270 seats in parliament are reserved for these each of these three religions.
On the other hand, senior government posts are reserved for Muslims. All minority religious groups, including Sunni Muslims, are barred from being elected president. Jewish, Christian and Zoroastrian schools must be run by Muslim principals.
[49] Compensation for death paid to the family of a non-Muslim was (by law) less than if the victim was a Muslim until recently. Conversion to Islam is encouraged by entitling converts to inherit the entire share of their parents' (or even uncle's) estate if their siblings (or cousins) remain non-Muslim.
[50] Iran's non-Muslim population has fallen dramatically. For example, the Jewish population in Iran dropped from 80,000 to 30,000 in the first two decades of the revolution.
[51] By 2012, it had dwindled below 9,000.
[52]
They know nothing of some of the nasty things the United States has had to do and will continue to do in the name of world security.
Obama got you whipped, eh? 
