Melting Down Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s Twitter Feed – To Save Pastor Saeed

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Jordan Sekulow

November 21, 2013

2 min read

Middle East

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This morning – to coincide with the resumption of nuclear negotiations with Iran – the ACLJ launched a Twitter campaign to contact Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.  The message was simple:

To save Saeed, we have to apply relentless pressure, through every conceivable form of media.  You’ve signed petitions, written letters, facebooked, tweeted, and texted.

And you haven’t been ignored.  The Senate has passed a unanimous resolution calling for Pastor Saeed’s release.  The President of the United States called for Pastor Saeed’s release in the first conversation between an American and Iranian president in more than thirty years, and even key members of the European community are joining the movement to Save Saeed.

All to often, when people lose interest in prisoners of conscience, the prisoner will lose his life.  We cannot forget Pastor Saeed, and we must make sure that Iran knows we haven’t forgotten.

So, please, tweet for Pastor Saeed, and join the movement that’s vowed not to leave him behind.

Update 11.21.2013: Thank you to the thousands of people who joined our social media campaign sending more that 3,500 tweets to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif for the release of this U.S. citizen.  We hope the campaign continues to gain traction, as we are seeing the impact it is having inside of Iran.  Although we initiated this campaign in English, we are pleased to report that it has been picked up in Iranian media. We hope to see more tweets for Pastor Saeed’s freedom coming from Iranians and people all over the world.  These efforts further support that the importance of religious freedom and Pastor Saeed’s freedom is not an issue just for Americans, but the entire world.