CNS News - Wife of Imprisoned Iranian-American Pastor Challenges Obama’s Silence
By Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com
The wife of an Iranian-American pastor whose eight-year prison term for purported national security offenses was upheld by an Iranian court this week expressed disappointment that “my president, President Obama, has not spoken a word about him.” Naghmeh Abedini, the American wife of Saeed Abedini, issued a statement through the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) after learning that a Tehran court had rejected his appeal and refused to reduce the sentence handed down last January.
“The news out of Iran is devastating to our family,” she said of the appeal decision, which came three weeks after Iran inaugurated a “moderate” new president. . . .
The ACLJ, which is representing his wife and children, has led international efforts to draw attention to his plight and campaign for his release. Largely as a result of those efforts, Secretary of State John Kerry called for his release last January, and again in March. . . .