In 2012 a pastor named Saheed Abedini, 35, from Boise, Idaho was jailed in Iran with the allegation that he tried to set up house churches was one of the four people {Iranian-American} that was freed on Saturday (Jan 16) in a prisoner deal with the United State linked to the nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers.

The Christians in the U.S, most especially the evangelicals has championed the Abedini’s cause by pressured the Obama administration
to work on his release.

But for some of Abedini’s supporters, his cause was complicated when his wife, Naghmeh, last November revealed that her husband had abused her physically, emotionally and sexually, for years and was addicted to porn meanwhile Nahman Abedini was among the first to report his release via Twitter.

Iran first announced that it released four Iranian-Americans, and in exchange the U.S. said it would drop or stop pursuing charges against seven Iranians for violating sanctions against Teheran.


Other prisoners released was: -Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who spent 18 months in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, Amir Hekmati, 32, a Marine veteran from Flint, Mich., imprisoned since August 2011; and a man named Nosratollah Khosavi-Roodsari, whose imprisonmnet had not been publicized.

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