Christian Post - Iranian Pastor Youcef Death Sentence: Conflicts Emerge Between US and Iran Media

By Katherine Weber, ChristianPost.com

Media accounts of Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani differ greatly between the U.S. and Iran, leading some in the international community to criticize Iran and the Iranian media for taking Nadarkhani’s case too lightly. . . .

International pressure on the case caused “local government officials [to start] putting out this information on [Nadarkhani] saying he was a convicted rapist,” Jordan Sekulow, Director of Policy and International Relations at the American Center for Law and Justice, told The Christian Post.

“They haven’t executed someone for apostasy at the state level since 1990,” he added.

The U.S. then received secret documents of the Iranian Supreme Court stating clearly that Nadarkhani had been put on trial for execution due to apostasy, nothing else.

“We caught them this time, and because of that they are in crisis mode,” said Sekulow. . . .

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