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.

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