Wife of American Jailed in Iran Pleads for Help from US

From Fox News.

This is very troubling, not least because Abedini is an American citizen and no other media outlets are reporting this.

The wife of an American Christian pastor imprisoned in Iran,  in emotional testimony Friday on Capitol Hill, told lawmakers she’s “disappointed” with the State Department’s lackluster involvement in the case — as her lawyers accused the government of going completely “AWOL” in the face of prisoner Saeed Abedini’s plight.

In a sign of movement, Fox News has learned that after the hearing, Secretary of State John Kerry called commission co-chairman Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., to discuss the case. In addition, Fox News has learned that Suzan Johnson Cook, who handles matters of religious freedom at the department, will meet with the wife Friday.

Naghmeh Abedini, the pastor’s wife, testified through tears as she described how her children could not understand what happened to their father. “They kept saying, ‘Does daddy not love us anymore?’ … And I had to tell them that he was in prison because he loved Jesus.”

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