Baptist Press - U.S. Pastor Marks 1 Year in Iranian Prison
By Erin Roach, BPNews.net
As Iranian-American pastor Saeed Abedini marks one year in Tehran's brutal Evin Prison, his wife encountered Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, in a New York hotel lobby and passed along a letter from the prisoner to the president.
Naghmeh Abedini, who lives in Idaho with the couple's two children, was in New York to film interviews with Fox News, CNN and other outlets calling for her husband's release. She happened to be staying in the same hotel as the Iranian delegation, in town for the United Nations General Assembly.
As Rouhani approached the elevators Monday (Sept. 23), Naghmeh Abedini gave the letter to one of his delegates, who promised to deliver the letter to the president, the American Center for Law and Justice, which is representing her, reported. . . .