CNS News - American Pastor Jailed in Iran Accused of Spying, Brainwashing Young Muslims

By Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com

Amid growing international calls for Iran to release an imprisoned Iranian-American pastor, a regime mouthpiece reportedly has accused Saeed Abedini of spying for the U.S. government and brainwashing young Iranian Muslims to convert to “Zionist Christianity.”

According to Mohabat News – an independent Iranian Christian news agency – Iran’s Bultan News charged that Abedini, who was arrested while visiting Iran last September to build a non-sectarian orphanage, had been “commissioned” to pursue nine objectives.

These included the illegal planting of house churches; creating financial networks to support the spread of “Zionist Christianity” including attempts to brainwash and “recruit” Iranian orphans; and transmitting news from inside Iran “directly to the White House” – which Mohabat said amounted to an accusation of spying. . . .

Amid a campaign led by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), the evangelical pastor’s plight taken up by members of Congress and by Secretary of State John Kerry. On Friday, ACLJ Executive Director Jordan Sekulow brought his case before the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, with the pastor’s wife, Naghmeh Abedini, sitting alongside him. . . .

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