Controversy
In the mid-1990s, Bishop Haik Hovsepian Mehr, head of the Iranian Assemblies of God, was ordered to comply with the following directives:
- No church service must be conducted in Persian language (the language of the people)
- All members must be issued with membership cards and their admittance to the services would be on production of the appropriate card.
- Photocopies of these cards and appropriate membership lists with their addresses to be given to the competent authorities.
- Sunday meetings were to be for members only. No meetings to be held on any other day, in particular Friday.
- No new members may be admitted without informing the appropriate department of the Ministry of Information and Islamic Guidance.
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