American Christian pastor Saeed Abedini has been sitting
in a filthy Iranian prison for more than a year. He's been tortured and beaten
for practicing his faith, but that wasn't enough for the Obama administration
to bother negotiating his release as part of the deal reached with Iran over the weekend.
"It's devastating," the
pastor's wife Naghmeh Abedini told Fox News Radio. She said her children were praying to have him home for the holidays.
"It's unbearable," she said, "to think of another Christmas
without him and see my kids not have him home for Christmas." After the nuclear deal announced over the weekend, Abedini said she doesn't see
"any more leverage left." "Iran has no incentive for them to release him. I don't think we have any
more leverage," she said. "We now have to consider other avenues and
having other countries speak out because our country when we could have used
our leverage chose to stay silent."
ACLJ, the legal organization representing
Saeed Abedini and his wife, did not mince words in reaction to the non-negotiation with Iran.....To Read More....
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