The Islamic Republic of Iran’s atrocities against anti-regime protesters have reportedly led to security forces killing at least 19 Iranian Christians, according to Article 18, an organization that promotes religious freedom in Iran.
Article 18 reported on February 9: “The total number of Christians confirmed killed during the protests is at least 19, including members of Iran’s recognized (Armenians and Assyrians) and unrecognized (converts) communities.”
According to the Article 18 declaration, the Islamic Republic’s “brutal response to last month’s mass demonstrations” resulted in security forces killing Iranian Christians Nader Mohammadi, 35, and Zahra Arjomandi, 51, both of whom were shot dead on January 8 in separate protests 1,000 miles apart.
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Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2026. (MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
Mohammadi was the father of three young children and was murdered in Babol in northern Iran. Arjomandi, a mother of two, died in the arms of her son on the Persian Gulf island of Qeshm, southern Iran, Article 18 noted.
Iranian Christian website Mohabat News stated that regime security forces refused to release Arjomandi’s body for six days. Mohabat reported that her body was only released for burial under “strict security measures”, including a media blackout and a ban on a memorial service.
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NOPO armed special police units are on the scene as Iranians take to the streets of Enghelab (Revolution) Square in central Tehran, Iran, on June 24, 2025. (Images Negar Middle East/AFP via Getty Images)
He continued: “Our organization considers the massacre of all peaceful demonstrators by the Islamic Republic to be a crime against humanity that must not go unpunished. The impunity that for far too long has allowed this regime to commit crimes, both at home and abroad, must end. Branding peaceful demonstrators as ‘terrorists’, and Christians who are persecuted every year as ‘Zionist mercenaries’, is nothing but scapegoating.”
He warned that “the Islamic Republic’s regime has, from its inception, shown all the hallmarks of a totalitarian state. Most Iranians have now come to realize that their fundamental rights have been taken away from them, including the freedom to choose one’s religion or belief, political self-determination and even their lifestyle choices. Christians were some of the first to experience this, when an Anglican priest and convert to Christianity, Rev. Arastoo Sayyah, died less than 200 hours after death in his church office was murdered. Revolution of 1979.”
A comprehensive 2025 report entitled“The Tip of the Iceberg” about the persecution of Iranian Christians was released by Article 18 in collaboration with Open Doors, Christian Solidarity Worldwide and Middle East Concern.
December 24, 2012: A female Iranian Christian lights a candle at Saint Mary Chaldean-Assyrian Catholic Church in central Tehran, Iran on Christmas Eve. (AP)
According to the report “The Tip of the Iceberg,” Mohammad Nasirpour, Tehran’s deputy prosecutor and head of the 33rd District Prosecutor’s Office, stated in his indictment against four Iranian Christians in June 2022: “Armenian and Assyrian Christians in the Protestant denomination, with their evangelical character and mission to Christianize Iran, are seen as a security threat to the Islamic Revolution, aimed at undermining the Islamic foundation of the Islamic Revolution. Islamic Republic You could say that Persian-speaking evangelical movements are supported by fundamentalist evangelical Christians and Zionists.
According to a February 10 report on the Christianity Today website, Iranian Christians want President Trump to intervene to prevent the Ayatollah regime from continuing its massacre of Iranians.
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“That’s probably one of the most frustrating aspects of the whole situation right now,” said Shahrokh Afshar, founder of the Fellowship of Iranian Christians. “Everyone was hoping he would do something,” Afshar told the newspaper after Iranian authorities killed thousands of protesters in January. according to some estimates.
Cars burn in a street during a protest against the collapse of the currency in Tehran, Iran, January 8, 2026. (Stringer/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS)
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The family’s Bibles and literature on Christian theology were also seized during the raid.
The US State Department has designated Iran as a “country of special concern (CPC)” because the Islamic regime has “committed or tolerated particularly serious violations of religious freedom” regarding violations of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.
The Iranian regime-controlled Statistical Center of Iran claims that there are 117,700 Christians of recognized denominations, according to the most recent 2016 census. Report from the US Department of State about the fate of Iranian Christians.
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However, the State Department noted: “The Christian NGO Article 18 estimates that there are 500,000 to 800,000 Christians in the country, while the Christian advocacy group Open Doors International puts the number at 1.24 million. Christian NGOs report that many Christians are converts from Islam or other recognized faiths.” The population of Iran is approximately 92 million.
