Remember Pastor Saeed as he marks his second Christmas imprisoned in Iran

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

This Christmas, Remember Pastor Saeed. Remember the Persecuted Church

 

This is the second Christmas that Pastor Saeed Abedini, a U.S. citizen, will spend in an Iranian prison.

 

His only crime? His Christian faith.

 

Last Christmas, Pastor Saeed was locked away in Evin Prison – Iran’s brutal destination for political prisoners – where he was beaten and abused, suffering internal injuries.

 

This Christmas, he’s in an even worse prison, a prison overrun with murderers and rapists, where Pastor Saeed has already been threatened at knifepoint, and his life is in danger every day.

 

Inexcusably, he remains in prison even after the Obama administration made a “deal” with his captors. According to this “deal,” Iran keeps enriching uranium, Iran keeps its centrifuges (key equipment for building nuclear weapons), Iran gets billions in sanctions relief, and Iran gets “humanitarian transactions” from the United States.

 

Before this deal, Iran also received back one of its own, a nuclear scientist imprisoned in the United States.

 

His crime? Nuclear proliferation.

 

And what did America get in return? Certainly not its own citizen, in chains for the Gospel.

 

We pledged humanitarian aid for the Iranians. Where is Iran’s humanitarian gesture for America?

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Remembering.

[Valin]