SAN DIEGO (AP) _ Members of the Iranian Christian Church of San Diego are praying for their homeland amid continuing turmoil over Iran’s disputed presidential election.
The Rev. Sohrab Ramtin, whose sermons are broadcast by satellite into Iran, says his congregation believes reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi (meer hoh-SAYN’ moo-SAH’-vee) defeated President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE’-neh-zhahd), though the incumbent claims to have won a landslide victory.
Ramtin says Iranian Christians hoped a Mousavi victory would ease persecution in Iran.
Iran’s supreme ruler, meanwhile, has warned Iranians to unite behind the country’s Islamic system.