{"id":27631,"date":"2009-06-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/press\/iran-csw-concerned-for-religious-minorities-878\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:31:29","slug":"iran-csw-concerned-for-religious-minorities-878","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/press\/iran-csw-concerned-for-religious-minorities-878\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran &#8211; CSW concerned for religious minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is concerned for the safety and well-being of non-Muslim religious minorities in Iran as violent protests over recent Presidential elections continue.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alexa Papadouris, CSW&#8217;s Advocacy Director, said: &#8220;Recent comments by the Iranian Government and Ayatollah Khamenei apportioning blame on foreign elements for the mass demonstrations is a worrying development. The linking of national unrest with international interference has, in the past, been associated with increased targeting of non-Muslim religious minorities, deemed by the regime to be sympathisers with a Western agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>CSW is concerned that the situation for non-Muslim religious minorities, particularly for Baha&#8217;is and certain Christian denominations, which worsened under Ahmadinejad&#8217;s previous term of presidency, will continue to deteriorate amidst the current political chaos. As the world&#8217;s attention is drawn to the unfolding events in Iran, CSW appeals that the situation for religious minorities is not forgotten.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is concerned for the safety and well-being of non-Muslim religious minorities in Iran as violent protests over recent Presidential elections continue.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"regions":[148,145],"class_list":["post-27631","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","regions-iran","regions-middle-east-north-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/27631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/27631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38218,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/27631\/revisions\/38218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27631"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=27631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}