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Iran: Christianity

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 7009, tabled on 4 September 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the Government of Iran on that Government's treatment of Christians.

Answered on

7 September 2017

I last raised concerns about the persecution of religious and ethnic minorities, including the detention and treatment of Christians, with the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi during my visit to Tehran on 5 August.

Answered by

Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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