NewsMax - American Law Center Rebuts Claim of Retrial for Iranian Christian Pastor

By Mike Tighe, NewsMax.com

The American Center for Law and Justice is sounding the alarm about erroneous reports that Iranian Pastor Yosef Nadarkhani will get a new trial instead of being hanged for refusing to renounce his Christian faith.

The Iranian media’s story line about the magnanimous opportunity for a retrial instead of the death penalty is a ruse to get people to forget about the case of Nadarkhani, who has been imprisoned for two years on charges of apostasy. Iran wants to silence the global outcry with its tale of a retrial because of concerns about the original conviction, the center says.

"What's worse is that the mainstream media has begun to run these [Iranian] reports as fact,"Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the law and justice center, told Christian Broadcast News. . . .

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