Christian Post - Sen. Ted Cruz Urges Obama to Renew Call for Saeed Abedini's Release
By Anugrah Kumar, ChristianPost.com
Sen. Ted Cruz has sent a letter, signed by 23 senators, to President Barack Obama urging him to focus international attention on the detention of U.S. Pastor Saeed Abedini in an Iranian prison because of his Christian faith. Abedini was moved to a more brutal prison this week.
"The President of the United States is in a unique position to focus international attention on the unjust and abusive detention of one of our citizens," reads the letter by Sen. Cruz, days after Saeed was transferred from Evin prison in Tehran to the even more brutal prison in Karaj County of Iran's Alborz Province.
"Rajai Shahr is a murders' jail. It's a violent criminals' jail," Jordan Sekulow, executive director of American Center for Law and Justice, said on Fox News. . . .