Religious minority leaders support Khamenei's warmongering

Some religious minority leaders supported Khamenei's war mongering against Israel in various letters.

Following the Revolutionary Guards' missile attack on Israel last week and Israeli officials' warning of a retaliatory attack against Iran, some government representatives and leaders of religious minorities wrote separate and collective letters supporting Ali Khamenei's call for war against Israel.

Despite the fact that religious minorities are recognized in the constitution of the Islamic Republic, in many cases we have witnessed arrests, harassment, long-term imprisonment, sanctions, exile, and many other cases, especially in relation to Armenians and Jews. An issue that has been carried out by the Islamic Republic against religious minorities for more than 45 years, and they have only supported them in times when they needed the presence of these people in society.

Records have shown that the Islamic Republic has used associations, institutions, and prominent figures of religious minorities, especially Christians and Jews, to promote or strengthen the policies of the Islamic Republic, or to pressure them. Now, religious and religious minority leaders have announced their support for Ali Khamenei's warmongering and the regime's show of strength against Israel and other countries.

"Homayun Sameh Najafabadi," a representative of the Kulimians in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, who had supported Hamas's October 7 attacks on Israel and the massacre of Jews, published a letter on October 8, supporting the Revolutionary Guards' missile attack on Israel, declaring that the Islamic Republic has no fear of Israel, and considered Ali Khamenei's presence at Friday prayers on October 3, exactly 3 days after these attacks, to be a declaration of power to the oppressors.

In his speech, he also warned governments allied with Israel, saying: "US government officials should pay attention to the fact that the slightest aggression by the Zionist regime will undoubtedly be met with a regretful response from the Islamic Republic."

"Charlie Anouyetakieh", the representative of the Assyrian Christians in the parliament, "Marnersay Benjamin", the bishop of the Assyrian Church of the East, "Mar'Imad Khoshabeh", the bishop of the Assyrian and Chaldean Catholic Church, and Rev. "Ninos Moqaddas-Niya", the head of the Assyrian Evangelical Church in Tehran, also published a joint letter, using harsh words against Israel, supporting the Islamic Republic regime and Ali Khamenei regarding the war against Israel, and emphasizing the Islamic Republic's readiness to respond against Israel.