Iran has sentenced this Iranian Christian pastor to the gallows.  I comment here for two reasons.

1.  I was invited to visit Iran, and assured that Iranian Christians freely and safely exercise their faith.  I would love to travel in Iran, and I believe that many Iranians want better relations with the U.S.  However, I was skeptical then regarding religious liberty in Iran and I do not believe this is simply a western news bias.  The pastor—and other Christians—are under arrest for telling others about their faith.  He was arrested when he registered his church.

2.  My source is the UK Daily Mail.  There is a reason for this selection: few others reported.  My quick search returned an interesting news void: the usual alphabet soup of leftist news sources join Aljazeera in blacking out this story.  Fox picked it up.  You may read the story in blogs.  The pastor was convicted last September, and the story was picked up then by at least CNN and the Puffington Host.  But, persecution of Christians in Iran does not mesh comfortably with either the Islamic or western agnostic narratives.