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Wife of U.S. pastor held in Iran pleads for his freedom
By Ashley Fantz, CNN
December 12, 2013
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/12/world/meast/iran-u-s-pastor/
By Ashley Fantz, CNN
December 12, 2013
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/12/world/meast/iran-u-s-pastor/
(CNN) -- The wife of an American pastor imprisoned in Iran pleaded with a House subcommittee on foreign affairs Thursday to do something to free her husband.
Naghmeh Abedini said that her husband, Saeed Abedini, went to Iran to build an Orphanage but was Imprisoned unjustly because of his Christian beliefs.
She said that when her family's "nightmare" began, she anticipated having to fight the Iranian government. But she feels shocked and deeply disappointed because she's had "to battle my own government."
U.S. President Barack Obama pushed for the release of Abedini and two other detained Americans -- Robert Levinson and Amir Hekmati -- when he spoke on the phone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in September.
Saeed Abedini is a U.S. citizen of Iranian birth. In January, he was sentenced to eight years in prison, accused of attempting to undermine the Iranian government and endangering national security by establishing home churches.
He had converted to Christianity from Islam ...
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