The Armenian Genocide In Iran

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There is prejudice in the western world against Muslims, is it the same for Christians in a Muslim country? Prejudice of some of sort sadly exists everywhere in the world but it is usually the minority that faces the harshest criticism. Iran has been known for being a very conservative country especially when it comes to religion but they have been very accepting of Christians but to a certain point.
The biggest wave of Christianity Iran has ever experienced was during the Armenian genocide as many helpless Armenian escaped to neighboring countries and many fled to Iran, which at the time was relatively safe, and with open arms accepted them. Even though they were allowed in the country many problems arose as of morals and ethics, but because …show more content…
Christianity cannot be taught in the native Persian language so in Iran only Armenians and Assyrians are recognized as being Christians and are allowed to be. Hatred after the revolution caused for Armenians to change their last names to a Persian last name because of fear in being prosecuted or harassed which was difficult for Armenians accept as they are very proud of their culture. So why would Christian Armenians be treated differently if they were accepted into the country after the Armenian genocide but later be prosecuted for being themselves? As I interviewed my father he told me a story of how after the revolution “ A Persian man stormed into there Christian Armenian school and ordered the children to scream Allah the children did not obey which made the man really angry and a Armenian priest heard what the man was saying and confronted the man”(MInaeizadeh). After the next day this incident occurred that priest was never seen again and his body was found chopped up and left in a bag by what was believed to be devout Muslims. This showed how Iranians felt as if they were losing their country and they reacted with prejudice and …show more content…
In my interview of my father he told me “ I was the driver for the jeep and we were coming on heavy fire and we were still being ordered to move forward and this Persian man told me to not come as I am Christian and do not deserve to die”(Minaeizadeh). A few minutes later that man died and so did everybody else that was in the car other than for my dad as he retreated to safety. So this brings me to the point of how prejudice depends on the person and in this case in Iran it depends heavily on how they were taught to view
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