Source: Mohabat News, July 18, 2016
Iranian Intelligence Police arrested three Christians from Baku, Azerbaijan, during their visit to a house church in Tehran. During their attack, they arrested one of the Iranian members of the house church as well.
Reports obtained by Mohabat News indicate that three Azeri Christians were arrested on June 24, 2016, during their visit to Tehran, Iran’s capital. These believers entered Iran as tourists to visit their fellow Christian brothers and sisters. The Iranian Intelligence Police raided a residential house in the outskirts of Tehran where they were visiting and arrested them all, along with one of the Iranian believers. They were immediately transferred to an unknown location.
Initial reports indicate that the three Azeri Christians arrested are members of “Word of Life” church in Baku, Azerbaijan, who had been invited to Tehran by a group of Iranian believers to visit their house church.
The wives of these Azeri Christian men have not been able to contact them since their arrest. Only one of the three men has been allowed to make two very short phone calls to his wife in Azerbaijan, during which he said, “All three of us are in good health and are held together in one place.”
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