He Escaped Iran in 1979. Now He's Equipping The Underground Church (How To Help Christians in Iran) ft. David Nasser
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.9 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
David Nasser narrowly escaped Iran in 1979 after the revolution.
He saw "religion gone wrong" and decided that he hated God.
You'll have to listen to what happened next, but it's one of the most glorious testimonies we've heard in a long time.
David knows only too well that this is a critical moment for the underground church in Iran.
We discuss his story, what's happening in Iran with the church, how we can help, and the biggest lessons on family that he took from the Middle East (compared to our western obsession with hyper-individualism).
On this episode, we talk about:
0:00 Intro
1:15 Escaping Iran
5:14 The Gospel for Shiite Muslims
9:29 The Iranian Church
18:16 Family In The Middle East
28:07 How to Understand The Idea of Honor
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Revival Iran: https://revivaliran.com/
Website: https://davidnasser.com/
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| 0:00.0 | We knew as a family that our lives were in danger and we had to escape. |
| 0:03.8 | And I actually remember those days. |
| 0:05.3 | I remember a soldier coming to my school, Jeremy, in our army base, the first few weeks |
| 0:10.8 | of the revolution, and actually putting a gun in my forehead and threatening to take my life |
| 0:16.2 | because of who my father was. |
| 0:20.6 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm excited to be joined today by David Nasser. |
| 0:25.6 | David, thanks for jumping on here today. |
| 0:27.4 | Jeremy, it's such a pleasure. |
| 0:28.6 | I follow you on Instagram, and man, it's always so fruitful the things that God has put |
| 0:34.0 | on your heart to teach us. |
| 0:35.5 | So thanks. |
| 0:36.6 | You've made me a better granddad, you know. You weren't around when I was a dad. But yeah, but yeah, it's definitely been stuff that I forward to my friends. So so thankful for you. Awesome. Oh, man. Thanks, David. Praise God. I, I'm so excited to talk to you. So David is going to share a little bit of his story and his background |
| 0:54.9 | in Iran. And so kind of where we're going to take this conversation is I want to you guys to |
| 0:58.5 | hear a little bit about his background, talk a little bit about just the current state of things |
| 1:02.7 | in Iran. And then I just really want to unpack the observations between like Persian culture, |
| 1:09.0 | what we can learn from just David's background and modern |
| 1:11.8 | Western Christianity and how those threads come together. So I want to drill into some of that stuff |
| 1:15.6 | with David. But David, yeah, tell everybody a little bit about your story, your background. |
| 1:19.7 | Yeah, like you just said, Jeremy, I was originally born in Iran. And in 1979, when the |
| 1:26.6 | Iranian revolution happened, 47 years ago ago a lot of people revisiting |
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