Reza Pahlavi, the son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, has been working for most of his life to replace the oppressive Islamist regime of Iran. Pahlavi walked onto the stage at Liberty University this week and told thousands of young American Christians something the Islamic Republic desperately does not want the world to know: the faith it has spent 46 years trying to eradicate is not dying in Iran. It is multiplying. The nation that once sheltered the Jewish people under Cyrus and helped the Jews return from exile and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem is today sheltering the Christian faith in its own basements and living rooms, at mortal risk, and its crown prince came to Lynchburg, Virginia, to bear witness. “We speak often in this world about injustice. You are charged by your professors and your pastors to fight against it. But what is happening in Iran demands a stronger word; evil,” he told the students. Because what else do you call a system that murders its own children? What else do you call a regime that wages war both on enemies abroad and on its own people? In recent years, tens of thousands of Iranians have been killed in wave after wave of repression.” “For those of you grounded in faith, there is another truth,” he said. “In Iran today, Christianity is not fading. It is rising quietly, powerfully underground. In homes, in whispers, in hidden gatherings, Iranians are finding faith at great cost. Pastors are imprisoned. Bibles are confiscated. Believers are hunted. Converts are threatened with execution. Families are torn apart. But still they gather. “Still, they pray. Still, they believe,” Pahlavi said. “Because faith that survives persecution is unbreakable. Because the light shines brightest in the darkest places.” Christianity is indeed growing in Iran. Multiple ministry organizations tracking Iran report it has one of the fastest-growing Christian populations on earth, with millions of secret believers meeting in homes across the country. The regime knows it, and the arrests and executions of Iranian Christians have accelerated in recent years precisely because the authorities are terrified of what they cannot stop. He asked the students to show moral clarity as Americans and stand with the Iranian people. “America must be clear,” he said. “There is no negotiating with evil. There is no reforming a system built on brutality. There is only one path forward: the end of this regime. The crown prince of Iran stood at the world’s largest Christian university and delivered the news: the underground church in Persia is alive, it is growing, and it will outlast every Ayatollah who has tried to extinguish it. China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran within the next few weeks, a report citing unnamed U.S. intelligence sources says. Drawing on “three people familiar with recent intelligence assessments,” CNN said that the delivery would be a “provocative move,” considering “Beijing said it helped broker the fragile cease fire” that paused the war between Iran and the United States earlier this week. There is evidence Beijing is working to route the shipments through third countries to hide their origin, two of the unnamed sources said. Included in the shipment would be shoulder-fired anti-missile systems known as MANPADs, which would threaten U.S. military aircraft if the ceasefire ends and armed conflict resumes, the unnamed sources said. President Trump indicated during a press conference earlier this week that the F-15 fighter jet shot down last week over Iran was shot down by just such a handheld weapon. A team of researchers invented a completely fake medical condition called “bixonimania” and published clearly fraudulent papers about it online, then monitored major AI chatbots as they began recommending it as a real illness to people seeking medical advice. Nature reports that a Swedish medical researcher has exposed a troubling vulnerability in artificial intelligence systems by creating a fictional disease that AI chatbots subsequently presented as legitimate medical information to users. The experiment, conducted by Almira Osmanovic Thunström from the University of Gothenburg, revealed how easily large language models can absorb and spread medical misinformation. Osmanovic Thunström explained her motivation for the experiment, stating, “I wanted to see if I can create a medical condition that did not exist in the database.” She chose the name bixonimania specifically because it sounded ridiculous and no legitimate eye condition would be called mania, which is a psychiatric term. She wanted to make it abundantly clear to any medical professional that the condition was fabricated.
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