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Still Report #526 - Iran Frees Pastor Abedini & 3 Others
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Iran has just freed four American prisoners, including Pastor Saeed Abedini; Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian; Marine veteran Amir Hekmati, and a mysterious forth person said to be an American-Iranian national.
The release is part of a prisoner swap deal in which the United States freed six Iranian-Americans held on charges related to sanctions against Iran.
Iran’s semi-official news agency, FARS said:
"Based on an approval of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and the general interests of the Islamic Republic, four Iranian prisoners with dual-nationality were freed today within the framework of a prisoner swap deal."
Pastor Abedini was jailed in 2012 for basically running a house Christian church in Iran.
I did my first story on him in my very first Minute Memo #1 on June 17, 2014.
Although I claim no role in his release, last June, I was invited to speak at a major economics conference to be held in Tehran in October; but told managers at Iran’s Press TV – who were managing the conference - that I could not attend until Pastor Abedini was released.
To my surprise, news is so tightly controlled inside Iran that none of the top news managers to whom I was speaking had ever heard of Pastor Abedini.
A few weeks later, I put up another report on Pastor Abedini on July 11, 2015, SR 388 just to give them the facts in case they still didn’t have them. Subsequently, I was invited to appear on both the Press TV Morning and Evening News programs, but declined for the same reason.
The release of Pastor Abedini has been confirmed by his wife via her Twitter account late this morning.
I’m still reporting from Washington. Good day.
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