Beth Kelia: I am ashamed of my Christianity because of the behavior of Westerners!

The member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly claimed that the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran funds the congresses of Christians. He said that reading the Bible is free in Iran, but it is forbidden in the United States.

According to the Persian-language Christian News Network, citing Fars News Agency, yesterday, Yonatan Batkelia, one of the representatives of religious minorities in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, told this news organization affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Organization: Religious minorities in Iran have 5 representatives in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, while the total population of religious minorities (different followers) is less than the quorum required by the country's laws to have one representative in the Assembly.

He added: "Assyrian Christians in Iran live in complete freedom and comfort alongside their Muslim brothers, and in addition to the freedom to perform their religious ceremonies, they are also free to carry out their cultural activities." He added that the budget for Christian congresses is provided by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran!

The Assyrian Christian representative in the Islamic Consultative Assembly stated: "The behavior of Westerners has nothing to do with the Christian religion, and I do not consider these people to be Christians, and I am ashamed that they are committing inhumane acts all over the world in the name of Christianity."

He also said about America: "On the other hand, how can a country like America, which does not allow the Bible to be read in its schools, be considered Christian, while the Bible is read and even taught in Iranian schools for Christians?"

Batkelya stated: "American and Western statesmen are talking about human rights while terrorist groups in Iraq bombarded a Christian church, and the American and European soldiers who were present there were only spectators of this inhumane act."

He added: "The question is why human rights advocates, who constantly talk about human rights in Iran, remain silent and do not react to the beheading of a Christian priest by Takfiri terrorists."

Yonatan Bat Kelia has previously been presented to the world by the Iranian government several times during meetings of the UN Human Rights Council as a witness to religious freedom in the Islamic Republic. There, he said that Christians in Iran are better off than Muslims and enjoy more freedom than them!

According to some Assyrian compatriots, this representative of the Islamic Consultative Assembly is considered a representative and observer elected by the government in the Assyrian community before being their representative in the Islamic Assembly.

He made his anti-Western remarks to the Revolutionary Guards News Agency while being accused by Iranian Christians of involvement in the looting of Iranian church properties for the benefit of the "Imam's Command Executive Headquarters" under the direct supervision of the Leader of the Islamic Republic.

Beth Kelia, an expert in roads and construction and a skilled land broker, constantly speaks ill of the West and America, even though her children are studying and living in America.