It's not just British sailors who are forced to make statements under duress in Iran. Armenian Orthodox bishops have to play nice with the mullahs, as the Tehran Times reports:
In an interview with the Mehr News Agency here on Saturday, the Armenian bishop in Tehran pointed out the deep ties between various denominations of Christianity in Iran as well as supports of the Tehran government.
Bishop Sebuh Sarkisian added that this is an indication of a perfect mutual respect between two great religions of the country, Islam and Christianity.
This is nonsense, as the bishop surely knows. Sarkisian not only has to worry about his own personal safety, but also that of his fellow Christians, so he is unable to tell the truth about religious "tolerance" in Iran. Iranian law allows the death sentence as punishment for apostasy from Islam. A Shi'ite converting to Christianity is illegal in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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