John Bickley

How did this happen?

Where are you located in terms of your church and your ministry?

And why are Iranians fleeing into Armenia in the first place?

Aaron Ross Powell Iran has an unbelievably rich history, obviously.

One of the most ancient countries on the planet.

Same with Armenia.

Armenia, the first Christian country.

Do you get, I have too many questions for you, but do you get a lot of support from the Armenian government in terms of freedom to worship and freedom to minister to whoever you want, etc.

Incredible.

Does this create tensions between Armenia and Iran?

I imagine it definitely does.

And does that not complicate it for the Iranian government to knowingly have churches that have a lot of people from Iran in them?

Mm-hmm.

The trade negotiations and the peace negotiations overseen by the Trump administration, or at least helped come into being by the Trump administration, how has that changed things on the ground for you?

Have you seen any effect so far?

That's a really high number you just gave.

And there's a lot of conflicting reports because we don't know, but that's what you're hearing.

60 to 80,000.

The presence of J.D.

Vance in Armenia, that's symbolically, I think it probably means a lot, right, to that region.