Iran stepped up its crackdown on the country's struggling Christian community by closing a church in Tehran, prompting an Iranian human rights group and religious freedom experts to slam the regime, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday, June 12. “The ability to join a church or mosque or temple is one of the most fundamental religious freedoms,” Hadi Ghaemi, a spokesman for the group International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, said last week. “This drive to close churches is an assault on free religious practice, in violation of Iran’s international commitments, and a sign of growing religious intolerance within the Iranian government.” According to the human rights group, Iranian Christians are in a dire situation because the regime assigned the Revolutionary Guard Corps to handle the oversight of Christian churches in Iran.