Washington Examiner - Mockery of 1981: Iran Falsely Claims to Have Granted Bail to Imprisoned American

By Joel Gehrke, WashingtonExaminer.com

Iranian state media announced that Pastor Saeed Abedini — an American citizen on trial today due to his Christianity — was being granted bail today, but his wife reports that the government refused to grant him bail or drop charges.

“This is all a lie by the Iranian media,” Naghmeh Abedini, who is also an American citizen living with their family in Idaho, said in a statement to her attorneys at the American Center for Law and Justice. “This has been a repeated promise by the Iranian regime since Saeed was first thrown in prison on September 26, 2012. We have presented bail. After the Judge told Saeed’s lawyer that bail was back on the table, the family in Tehran ran around in circles today to make sure Saeed was let out on bail. But again the bail officer rejected bail.”

Mrs. Abedini issued that statement after the Associated Press announced that Abedini would be released. “Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency is reporting that a jailed American pastor of Iranian origin is to be released imminently after posting $ 116,000 bail,” the Associated Press reported. “It quotes lawyer Nasser Sarbazi as saying Saeed Abedini stood trial at the Revolutionary Court Monday on charges of attempting to undermine state security by creating a network of Christian churches in private homes.”. . .

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