Iranian authorities are moving to confiscate the country’s oldest Protestant church and ordering Christians to leave their homes, signaling a new escalation in the Islamic Republic’s decades-long campaign against Christianity. St. Peter’s Evangelical Church in Tehran is set to be transferred to the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order (EIKO), a state-controlled organization responsible for confiscating religious and private property. According to church leaders, about 20 Armenian and Assyrian Christian families living on the church compound have been ordered to vacate within weeks, while church members have been instructed to find another place of worship.