"Christian activist Marlene Mathew has stated that “the Iranian government actively pursues Christian ministers and believers, placing them in prison under trumped up political charges, or simply killing them in accordance with their law. These people are innocent and need to be set free. . . . In recent weeks the Iranian government has openly declared that ‘Christians are enemies’ who are a major threat to the state.”75 She adds, “Iran has one of the highest number of spies per capita in the world, believers are often in fear of speaking openly lest they awaken the wrath of the religious police.”76"