Iran opens 'Holy Virgin Mary' station, to honour Christian heritage

Iran opens ‘Holy Virgin Mary’ station in Tehran to honour country’s Christian heritage

Iran’s capital Tehran has, on Monday 13 October, opened the ‘Holy Virgin Mary’ station on its Line Six in honour of the nation’s Christian heritage.

Iran opens Holy Virgin Mary station

Western propaganda claims that the Shia Iranian government hates Christians and Christianity.

The new station, which is near the St Sarkis Armenian Cathedral in District Six that serves the city’s Armenian Christian population of around 100,000, features murals showing Christian symbols. The municipality has extended its metro network to more than 160 stations – and the naming of the new station is a reflection of Iran’s constitutional protections for minority religions.

Western propaganda also claims that the country hates Jewish people and wants to destroy them. Iran has a Jewish population of around 15,000, the largest in the region outside Israel and whose presence in Iran dates back to the Babylonian exile; they have organised special events in solidarity with their government’s response to Israeli attacks, including Iran’s highly successful retaliatory missile strikes. According even to right-wing Israeli media, the Jewish community did not experience any violence or threats even during Israel’s attacks on Iran.

Featured image via the Canary

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Comments 2

Nisar Dean says:

9 months ago

IRAN IS PART AND PARCEL OF BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN DAY CIVILIZATION FOR WELL OVER 3000YEARS-THE PERSIAN
DYNASTY IS VERY WELL KNOWN.ONLY ISLAMIC NATION THAT HAS STOOD FOR LBERATION OF PALESTINE FOR PAST 46 YEARS
FROM THE TIME OF ISLAMIC REVOLUTION.TODAY WITH 90 MILLION IRANIANS CHRISTIAN JEWS-NOT ZIONISTS AND OTHERS HAVE FULL RIGHTS LIKE ORDINARY IRANIANS.AS PER DIVINE TEACHINGS OF QURAN THEY FOLLOW THE PROPHET PBUH AND HIS HOLY PROGENY AHLEBAYT AND THE 12 IMAMS.QURAN 5.67.EFFECTIVELY BOTH SUNNIS AND SHIA FOLLOW THE SAME GOD SAME QURAN SAME PROPHET.A VERY PEACE LOVING NATION-TOP 4 IN STEM-SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
IN IRAN SCIENCE AND RELIGION GO HAND IN HAND

- Airlane1979 says:
  
  9 months ago
  
  Please turn off your Caps Lock key. It makes your comments difficult to read. Still: if Christians, Jews and Muslims worship the same god, that must be the one that – according to the Old Testament – commanded the ancient Israelites to invade Canaan (modern Israel/Palestine), slaughter the inhabitants and steal the land. This is the basis for the existence of Israel where it is. Why oppose it, if your religion means anything? You are surely opposing God. We socialists and atheists, of course, have a different perspective. Free Palestine from Zionism – not because of religion, but for the sake of the liberation of the international working class.