Evangelicals organized by Southern Baptist leaders are pushing for more U.S. pressure against Iran’s nuclear program while also offering solidarity to Iran’s suppressed domestic opposition.
“Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, is funding Hezbollah and Hamas in Lebanon and Gaza, has sought to destabilize democratic and Western-leaning regimes throughout the Middle East, is currently arresting and detaining political opponents, actively persecutes its Christian citizens, has shot protesters in cold blood in the streets, and its president has denied the Holocaust and vowed to wipe Israel off the face of the earth,” pointedly opened the letter to Congress earlier this Fall from evangelicals and other Christians representing 28 million church goers. They declared that the “world’s most dangerous regime” must not procure the “world’s most dangerous weapons.”
