Baptist Press - Pastor again refuses to recant as pressure builds on Iran to halt execution

By Michael Foust, SBCBaptistPress.org

Iran is under increasing pressure from leaders around the world to halt the execution of Iranian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, who on Wednesday refused for the fourth and final time to recant his faith and could be executed at any time. . . .

The American Center for Law and Justice reported one of Nadarkhani's court exchanges.

"Repent means to return. What should I return to? To the blasphemy that I had before my faith in Christ?" he asked.

"To the religion of your ancestors, Islam," the judge reportedly replied.

"I cannot," Nadarkhani responded.

Firouz Sadegh-Khandjani, a friend of Nadarkhani's and a member of the council of elders for the Church of Iran, said Tuesday that his friend could be executed at any time after he refuses to recant a fourth time.

"We need the prayers of Christians," Sadegh-Khandjani said on the Jordan Sekulow radio show. . . .

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