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    RELIGIOUS MINORITIES LEADING NORMAL LIVES IN IRAN: CHRISTIAN MP

    Tehran Times
    Aug 3 2008
    Iran

    TEHRAN -- MP Yonatan Bet Kolia, the representative of the Assyrian and
    Chaldean Christian communities in the Majlis, said on Saturday that
    religious minorities live in peace in Iran and are free to perform
    their religious ceremonies.

    The MP also said the Iranian officials are committed to an equal
    treatment of minorities in the country.

    The Christian lawmaker went on to say that religious minorities are
    ready to defend their country in the face of any foreign threat.

    "They (minorities) are prepared to defend the country against any
    external attacks as they did so during the (1980-1988) Sacred Defense,"
    Kolia said in the opening ceremony of the eighth Tamuz Festival in
    Uremia, northwest Iran.

    200 athletes from Armenia, Georgia, Iraq and Syria have participated
    in the festival. The festival is scheduled to last for ten days
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