#1 priority of any American president and the government is to protect the American people. We've heard President Obama state this a number of times. Unfortunately, too many times with this president, is what he says and what he does are two different things.
Case in point, and American pastor, Saeed Abedini, has been langhuishing in Iran's most notorious prison for seven months accused of evangelizing and threatening national
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Pastor Abedini has been beaten, refused medical treatment and there is a fear he is suffering organ failure.
That being said, what is the Obama Admionistration doing to get him out? Doesn't seem like much. The State Department recently came under fire for not sending a department representative to appear at a Congressional hearing on Iran's treatment of religious minorities citing "scheduling conflicts." So much for the Administration's priority 1 of protecting Americans.
New Secretary of State John Kerry, perhaps under pressure because his department has been MIA on this issue said in a statement released March 22, "I am deeply concerned about the fate of U.S citizen Saeed Abedini, who has been detained for nearly six months and was sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran on charges related to his religious beliefs. I am disturbed by reports that Mr. Abedini has suffered physical and psychological abuse in prison, and that his condition has become increasingly dire."
Does one think his words are going to have a chilling affect on the terrorist regime in Iran? Not likely.
Abedini's wife, Naghmeh Abedini, told fox news that she is disappointed of the U.S. government's response to the plight of her husband.
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