FreeBeacon - Obama Adviser Asks Iran to Release Imprisoned US Pastor

By Daniel Wiser, FreeBeacon.com

An adviser to President Barack Obama recently asked Iranian government officials to release imprisoned U.S. pastor Saeed Abedini amid repeated calls for the administration to take a tougher stand against human rights abuses in Iran.

Joel Hunter, a pastor at Northland Church in Orlando and a spiritual adviser to Obama, discussed religious tolerance with Iranian officials at a conference in late May, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported over the weekend. Hunter led a delegation of U.S. religious leaders to the conference in Tehran and met with Iranian religious leaders, the country’s parliament speaker, and advisers to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

When asked by the BBC in Iran whether he raised the case of Abedini—a U.S. citizen and Christian pastor who has now been detained for almost two years in Iran—Hunter said he requested his release, according to a translation of the interview provided by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ). . . .

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