Stories tagged with: iran nuclear deal

• Abedini: $400M 'ransom' debate best left to leaders

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, August 05, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  BOISE, Idaho (BP) -- Pastor Saeed Abedini is reluctant to question the purpose of $400 million in foreign currency the Obama administration paid to Iran during a prison swap that secured Abedini's release from an Iranian prison in January. Read More

• Iran deal called a 'misstep' but may help evangelism

  by David Roach, posted Friday, September 11, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Though the White House has secured sufficient congressional support of the Iran nuclear deal to ensure its implementation, Southern Baptist legislators continue to warn the accord could facilitate Islamic terrorism.

  In a Sept. 10 procedural consideration, Senate opponents of the deal fell two votes shy of the 60 votes needed to bring it to a final vote, CNN reported. Senate Republicans were considering a revote while House leaders planned multiple votes on the deal. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Taqiyya, Imam Madhi & the Iran deal

  by Ayman Ibrahim, posted Tuesday, July 21, 2015 (9 years ago)

  The nuclear deal with Iran "naively ignores serious ideological Muslim Shiite beliefs," seminary professor Ayuman Ibrahim writes. Two key examples, Ibrahim notes, are a Shiite principle for concealing one's true beliefs (called taqiyya) and an apocalyptic expectation of a Shiite messiah. Read More

• Iran deal: persecuted church 'left behind'

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, July 14, 2015 (9 years ago)

  VIENNA (BP) -- The nuclear deal struck by Iran and six world powers led by the United States has drawn criticism from evangelicals for its potential ill effects on Israel and persecuted Christians in the Persian nation. Read More

• Iran deal unlikely to prompt religious liberty

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, April 02, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

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  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (BP) -- Though Iran and Western nations have agreed on the framework of a nuclear deal, Middle East experts say the final agreement probably will not serve as a catalyst for religious freedom in the Persian nation.

  "As long as you have Islam and an Islamic regime as the authoritative government and they hold the sword, Christians will be persecuted. Sanctions or no sanctions, Christians in Iran will not have freedom, period," said Paul Golhashem, a Christian author for Persian World Outreach, a ministry to the 80 million Farsi-speaking people worldwide. Golhashem left Iran in 1995 and now is a U.S. citizen living in Dallas. Read More