7 Responses to “I now have 117,012 votes”

1. dr_taitz@yahoo.com
   June 11th, 2014 @ 12:44 pm

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2. Analyst
   June 11th, 2014 @ 1:38 pm

   Orly: first, I see the elimination of the code to type in; Then, I also see my stuff flipping off the screen…

   And the amount of votes is great!

   Also, I literally tried to send info on this B.S. about the (bitcoin)! As now I can’t find the email I was going to send you on this, where up to (supposed-?) 36 US cities are now using it to pay for things, like a (new currency)!

   Tell me everyone how much I hate this damned nwo? They’re trying to destroy our dollar currency!!

3. Analyst
   June 11th, 2014 @ 1:45 pm

   And they’re also saying that people are using something called the Thomas Edison coin? currency idea? or something like this.

   And I think it’s being done to use that as an excuse to infiltrate this bitcoin, into our society! This will then, destroy our dollar! And force everyone to use this bitcoin for currency…and then, I can see how seniors will be hit hard, if they can’t function with it??!!

4. Analyst
   June 11th, 2014 @ 1:50 pm

   So my first impression is to say: “no way, hose!”

   Cause with the info that flipped off my screen in my Google Account, this could become a world currency????

   And that means that we should NOT accept this damned idea for any reason! Remember that new so-called currency/tax law (which is only a BILL and hasn’t been voted on in the House), #2847-Bill…this has probably something to do with it?!

5. Mofak
   June 11th, 2014 @ 2:29 pm

   My son Mike and my Granddaughter Marie voted in the Primary for you for Attorney General. There must be at least 5 million more with the intelligence, patriotism and sound judgment to know you are the best qualified and have the greatest desire for freedom, liberty and Happiness to be available for all Americans.
   Thank You for your love for our Country and for Justice to all. Mofak

6. hope
   June 11th, 2014 @ 10:24 pm

   There are other Americans STILL being held in captivity..

   **************

   The man who disappeared: Life before prison for captured Marine and Flint man Amir Hekmati

   May 18, 2014 at 7:00 AM, updated May 19, 2014 at 5:21 PM

   FLINT, MI — Amir Hekmati was a dreamer.

   He dreamed of traveling. He dreamed of meeting family members he never knew. He dreamed of starting his own family someday.

   Now, he’s living a nightmare.

   Monday, May 26, marks 1,000 days of captivity for Amir Hekmati, a young man who grew up in Flint and served his country with the U.S. Marine Corps.

   Family members said he was in Iran in the summer of 2011 to visit relatives. The Iranian government said otherwise. They said he was a CIA spy and sentenced him to death, locked him in one of the world’s most notorious prisons.

   At first, the family was quiet, hoping their silence would bring him home. As the months and years went on, they began talking more and more, began holding vigils and social media campaigns.

   They wanted the world to know about Amir Hekmati.

   Now, as Hekmati approaches 1,000 days in Iran’s Evin Prison, family members are talking at length for the first time about who Amir Hekmati really was.

   The dreamer

   Sarah Hekmati remembers a lot of things her brother told her. But this one stood out.

   He wanted a connection with extended family.

   It was a few years ago. They were overseas, visiting her husband’s family in Lebanon and Syria. Three Americans — a married couple and the wife’s war veteran brother — touring quiet towns and family dinner tables across the Middle East, meeting distant relatives for the first time. It was a Middle East that Amir had never seen before, certainly not in the war-torn Iraqi towns he encountered while deployed with the U.S. Marine Corps.

   His sister remembers what he said on that trip. After nearly four years in Iran’s Evin Prison, after solitary confinements and secret trials and death sentences, she thinks about her brother’s face that day.

   Amir was watching his brother-in-law, another first-generation American named Ramy Kurdi, embrace cousins and uncles he’d never met.

   Amir turned to his sister.

   “I wish I knew what that was like.”

   He never had this moment. He never knew the friends and family his parents left behind when they came to the United States more than three decades ago. Aside from a few, brief visits, his grandmother made to the United States, he never got to know the family beyond his parents and siblings.

   “When you’re first-generation American born to immigrant parents, we see all our American friends who were like, ‘I’m going to my grandma’s, I’m going to my cousins,” Sarah said.

   The Hekmati children never had that.

   Others in the family, like his sister, had made visits to Iran before. But between his Marine Corps enlistment and planning a post-military life and career, he never had an opportunity to visit Iran.

   In 2011, he got his chance. He had the experience he’d always wanted. For about two weeks, he met relatives he never knew, spent quality time with his aging grandmother, shared meals and prayers and gifts.

   Then, he was arrested and the nightmare began.

   American roots

   Ali and Behnaz Hekmati left Iran in 1979, during the Iranian Revolution, and settled in Flagstaff, Ariz., where Ali finished a Ph.D. in microbiology. The next year, their first child Sarah was born. Three years later, Behnaz was pregnant again.

   Amir and his twin sister, Leila, were born July 27, 1983. It would be more than 10 years before they welcomed another son into the family.

   So for most of his childhood, Amir was the only boy.

   “He always wanted a brother,” Sarah said.

   The family soon moved to a quiet neighborhood in Lincoln, Neb., when Ali Hekmati was offered a teaching job there.

   They were among the only Middle Eastern families in their neighborhood, but Ali and Behnaz made sure their children knew their culture and heritage.

   Here, Amir learned to play outside and ride his bike up and down the neighborhood streets. He’d stay out until the sun went down, whiling away the summer afternoons with neighborhood kids and made-up games the way American boys do.

   “He was just one of those kids who wanted to play until the sun went down,” Sarah said.

   The surfer dude

   In 1991, Ali accepted a different teaching job, this one at Flint’s Mott Community College. It meant another move for the young family. They initially settled in Flint’s College Cultural neighborhood before eventually moving to Flint Township.

   They weren’t in Nebraska anymore. The family here found more diversity, and a vibrant Middle Eastern community.

   The children attended Doyle-Ryder Elementary and later transferred to the Carman-Ainsworh School District.

   Sarah remembers her brother riding his bike into a swimming pool, sneaking a ride on her new downhill skis, hiding under her bed to scare her.

   He was always playing, she said, always energetic.

   In his adolescence and teenage years, Amir found a love in sports, said his sister. He played on the ice hockey and soccer teams, he was in swimming and karate.

   In yearbook photos, he’s skinny, a surprising contrast from the muscle-bound figure seen in later photos. After the military, he grew out his sideburns and wavy black hair and wore it pushed back. It’s a familiar look for a lot of guys who endured four years of regulation buzz cuts.

   Friends and family described him as a cool and confident adolescent, who could show off the sort of rambunctious energy many boys that age have.

   “I knew he was a cool kid,” said the Rev. Tony Massad, a 2001 Carman-Ainsworth grad and a priest in Livonia now. “He wasn’t like a hothead or anything like that. Kind of easy going.”

   He was quiet, but loved sports. A little introverted, but had plenty of friends.

   “He was laid back,” Massad said. “You could say a Flint-Michigan-Iranian-American surfer dude.”

   Kris Haymon remembers his former classmate as a fun, friendly kid who had an innocent and playful arrogance about him.

   “I remember just a really confident kid, a cocky, short confident kid,” said Haymon, 30. “A really nice kid.”

   The Hekmati children embraced American life, at the same time keeping Islam and their Middle Eastern heritage alive. Amir was active in the Muslim Student Association at school. At home, English was the first language, but Farsi was spoken as well.

   Culture, heritage and travel were valued in the house. They were values that would become a big part of Amir’s life later on.

   His father spoke four languages: English, Farsi, Spanish and Azeri Turkish.

   Amir grew to long for adventure and travel. While his siblings went on to graduate from Carman-Ainsworth, Hekmati transferred to Flint Central for the last two years of high school. He transferred because his grades were starting to slip, Sarah said, and he wanted to return his focus on schoolwork.

   The Marine

   The summer of 2001, shortly after graduation, Hekmati enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. He wanted adventure, he wanted to see new places, Sarah said. He also wanted to serve his country and ease the financial strain on his parents, who had already sent one child to the University of Michigan.

   Two months later, hijackers flew a pair of Boeing 767s into the World Trade Center towers in New York City.

   Talks of military intervention overseas soon followed.

   It was a tough time for the family.

   “It was really tense,” Sarah said.

   Her brother’s commitment to the military did not waver. She remembers how proud he was after completing boot camp at Camp Pendleton in Southern California.

   “He was really proud of himself,” she said. “He saw so many people get weeded out of boot camp, he was just so excited that he made it all the way through.”

   He trained as a rifleman, but because of his background with Farsi, the Marines sent Hekmati to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif., where he learned Arabic.

   In April 2004, he was deployed to Iraq, where he worked as a translator and cultural interpreter for his fellow Marines.

   Working in a war zone was tough on Hekmati and his family, but he sent positive reports home and worked to keep his family’s spirits high. He told family members about all the people he met, about helping Marines communicate and reach out to locals.

   He returned safely to U.S. soil. In 2005, his enlistment with the Marine Corps ended and he returned to Michigan.

   Life after the Corps

   Many military members, especially those who serve in combat zones overseas, struggle to transition back to civilian life.

   It was an adjustment, but Amir adapted well to civilian life, his sister said.

   He lived briefly with Sarah and her husband, Ramy Kurdi, who was completing his medical school training and working across Southwest Michigan doing clinical rotations.

   Kurdi reflects fondly on those days. The two young men bonded, both as brothers-in-law and friends. They watched movies together, played video games, exercised.

   Amir loved fitness, Kurdi said. He was always encouraging family members to work out with him.

   “He was way more active than I was,” said Kurdi. “He would train, he would eat, he’d get groceries. He’d buy us groceries and he’d make steaks at like 8 p.m.”

   With the same youthful energy he always had — and the new benefit of a military work ethic — Amir took to entrepreneurship and investing. He took an interest in finance and received a University of Phoenix degree.

   “Amir wasn’t the type to sit still,” his sister said. “He was the type to go to the gym every day, go running, be very organized.”

   He set up his own linguistics company in 2006, called Lucid Linguistics LLC. He specialized in Arabic translation work and consulting.

   He patented an invention — essentially a pocket translator.

   His translation expertise led him to contributing on projects across the country, for both military and civilian endeavors.

   He was listed as the principal investigator on a project for a video-game-based foreign language training tool. He worked on the project with New York-based Kuma Games, according to a Pentagon contract.

   According to the contract, the intention of the project was “to refresh languages skills in an intense and immersive 3D environment, which would be made available as part of an online/offline language exercise portal.”

   His language skills were in high demand, Sarah said.

   Eventually, he tagged along with Sarah and Kurdi on the trip to the Middle East, to see Kurdi’s relatives.

   It wasn’t long after the trip to Lebanon and Syria that Amir became focused on seeing his own family overseas.

   He knew the risks, he knew the hazards, but he figured if he was upfront about his military background and history, there would be no problem, Sarah said.

   Besides, he told family members, he was a Marine. He could look out for himself.

   In summer 2011, he went to Washington to apply to the Iran interest section for a passport to visit his grandmother in Tehran for the upcoming Ramadan celebration.

   He left that August. He entered Iran without a problem. And for two weeks, he had the experience he’d always wanted.

   Then, shortly before he was scheduled to fly home, he disappeared. Family members he was staying with came home to find him missing.

   The nightmare

   At first, Hekmati’s family members in Flint were optimistic.

   This can’t last long, they figured, it must be some kind of a mistake.

   So they kept quiet. They hoped that would work.

   They wondered: Why was he arrested? What were the charges?

   Months later, in December 2011, they saw his face on Iranian state television. In the program, he confessed to entering Iran as a CIA mole.

   Family members thought he looked thin, scared, not himself. They claim the confession was false and coerced.

   While Hekmati sat in one of the world’s most notorious prisons, family members began a campaign to raise awareness.

   They launched a Facebook page, they hired a public relations firm.

   Newly-elected Congressman Dan Kildee took up the issue, raising awareness about Hekamati on Capitol Hill and at the White House. He’s discussed Hekmati’s case with with President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and hundreds of members of Congress.

   “There isn’t a day that goes by where I’m not approached on the floor of the House of Representatives and asked by another member of Congress about Amir’s condition and continued captivity,” Kildee says. “This is very personal for me. The way I look at it is, what would I want my member of Congress to do if it were my own son being held on the other side of the world, in a dark prison cell, with no certainty about what is going to happen to them? I would want my member of Congress to get up and do everything in their power to get him home. And that’s what me and my staff do every day.”

   In March 2012, the death sentence was annulled and a re-trial was ordered, with a high court saying there were problems with his original trial.

   Family members waited for a new trial.

   As they waited, Amir’s father’s health worsened. He was battling brain cancer.

   They waited evcen more months for a new trial. Ali’s health got worse.

   “Dr. Hekmati’s condition has now been complicated by new symptoms of slurred speech, motor weakness, and an unsteady gait from his stroke,” Ali Hekmati’s doctor wrote in an open letter earlier this year, urging the patient be allowed to see his son.

   “It is unclear how much time that Dr. Hekmati has to live with his multiple medical co-morbidities and his brain cancer,” read the letter.

   It wasn’t until April 2014 when family members learned that in Dec. 2013, a secret retrial had been held in Iran.

   In that trial, Hekmati was given a 10-year sentence on a conviction of “practical collaboration with the American government.”

   For the family, it was like a punch to the gut. A 10-year sentence means a 2021 release, considering he was first imprisoned in 2011.

   Hekmati’s family and friends hope it doesn’t come to that. They want him home sooner. They want him to see his dad.

   Until then, they won’t stop working to bring him home. And they won’t stop hoping.

   Hoping he comes home soon, hoping he isn’t hurt.

   Hoping the nightmare ends.

   https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2014/05/the_man_who_disappeared_life_b.html

   *****************

   After Bergdahl’s release, what about other Americans held captive?

   By Jethro Mullen, CNN
   updated 4:10 PM EDT, Thu June 5, 2014

   Alan Gross has been in Cuban custody since December 2009, when he was jailed while working as a subcontractor. Cuban authorities say Gross tried to set up illegal Internet connections on the island. Gross says he was just trying to help connect the Jewish community to the Internet. Former President Jimmy Carter and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson have both traveled to Cuba on Gross’ behalf, but they were unable to secure his release. Alan Gross has been in Cuban custody since December 2009, when he was jailed while working as a subcontractor. Cuban authorities say Gross tried to set up illegal Internet connections on the island. Gross says he was just trying to help connect the Jewish community to the Internet. Former President Jimmy Carter and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson have both traveled to Cuba on Gross’ behalf, but they were unable to secure his release.

   STORY HIGHLIGHTS
   U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was released last weekend by the Taliban
   His case has drawn attention to other Americans held in the region
   Bob Levinson disappeared after to traveling to an Iranian island in 2007
   Other Americans are being held in Afghanistan and Pakistan

   (CNN) — The recent release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl by the Taliban in Afghanistan has refocused attention on some of the other Americans held captive in that region.
   Bergdahl spent five years in the hands of the Taliban before the U.S. government reached an agreement for a prisoner swap with his captors stirring debate in the United States about the terms of the deal and circumstances surrounding his capture.

   Although Bergdahl was the only American soldier in captivity, other U.S. citizens are being held in the region.

   Family of captive fear Bergdahl backlash Is there a message in the Bergdahl video? Is Bergdahl responsible for soldiers’ deaths?
   The longest detention is that of former FBI agent Bob Levinson, who went missing after traveling to an Iranian island more than seven years ago. His family says he was working for the CIA at the time.

   Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter wrote to President Barack Obama this week to ask why three other Americans he said were being held by Taliban-linked militants were not part of the deal that freed Bergdahl.

   Here are several of the most high-profile cases:

   Bob Levinson
   In March, Levinson, 66, passed a grim milestone, becoming the longest held hostage American in history.

   He vanished after traveling to the Iranian island of Kish in March 2007. The FBI says he was there as a private investigator.
   But news reports late last year said he was working as an independent CIA contractor when he disappeared.

   That prompted his family to speak out, saying they kept it quiet for years that Levinson was working for the CIA, because the U.S. government had warned them that revealing it would put him in more jeopardy.
   The FBI, White House and CIA have not publicly acknowledged any connection between the CIA and Levinson.

   It’s unclear who exactly is holding him or what his condition is. The family received a video in 2010 in which Levinson said he had been treated well but needed the help of the U.S. government “to answer the requests of the group that has held me for three-and-a-half years.”
   American officials have said they believe Levinson, who has diabetes and high blood pressure, is being held somewhere in southwest Asia.

   In March, Secretary of State John Kerry said the U.S. government “remains committed to the safe return of Mr. Levinson to his family.”
   He asked the Iranian government to “work cooperatively with us” on the investigation, Kerry said.

   But Iran has repeatedly said it isn’t holding Levinson and doesn’t know his whereabouts. During an interview in September with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was asked what he could tell Levinson’s family.

   “We don’t know where he is, who he is,” Rouhani said. “He is an American who has disappeared. We have no news of him.”

   In January, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tolds CNN’s Jim Sciutto that he hadn’t seen “anything that could prove” that Levinson was ever in Iran. If he was, Zarif said, the United States should explain “what a CIA operative was doing” there.

   Warren Weinstein
   Gunmen abducted Weinstein nearly three years ago from his home in Lahore, Pakistan. They posed as neighbors, offered food and then pistol-whipped the American aid worker and tied up his guards.

   The 72-year-old is being held by al Qaeda, which released a video of Weinstein at Christmas, showing him looking tired and pale.
   “Nine years ago, I came to Pakistan to help my government and I did so at a time when most Americans would not come here,” he said. “And now, when I need my government, it seems I have been totally abandoned and forgotten.”
   His daughter, Alisa, says she’s worried about his health: he has a heart condition and severe asthma.

   She told CNN’s “AC360” on Wednesday that the release of Bergdahl raised her hopes that her father could be next.
   For years, when Warren Weinstein’s case came up, U.S. officials called for his release but repeatedly said Washington wouldn’t bargain with al Qaeda. Now, Alisa Weinstein says it’s clear that negotiating is an option.
   But she also said she’s worried that the political backlash over Bergdahl’s case could harm her father’s cause.

   “We started to realize that the administration is going to be a lot less likely to do this again if it causes some political problems for them,” she said. “So does that mean that the door is closed for us?”

   Weinstein was employed by J.E. Austin Associates Inc., a U.S. consulting firm based in Arlington, Virginia, that is a USAID contractor. He is a world-renowned development expert, according to the company’s website.
   “My father is just as deserving of freedom as Sgt. Bergdahl, as are all of the Americans who are being held abroad,” his daughter said.

   Caitlin Coleman
   In October 2012, Coleman and her husband, Joshua Boyle, disappeared in Afghanistan.
   In his last contact, Boyle, a Canadian, said they were in an “unsafe” part of the war-torn country.

   Coleman’s family received two videos last year in which the couple asked to be freed from the Taliban captors. The family gave the videos to The Associated Press.

   In the videos, Coleman is nine-months pregnant and makes a direct plea to “my President Barack Obama for help.”

   “I would ask that my family and my government do everything they can to bring my husband, child and I to safety and freedom,” she says.

   Her family had already a posted video of their own on YouTube two months after she and Boyle disappeared, appealing for their safe return. They said they were concerned about her health and fearful for her unborn child.

   “As parents and soon-to-be grandparents, we appeal to whomever is caring for her to show compassion and allow Catie, Josh, and our unborn grandbaby to come home,” her father said.

   Boyle’s former wife, Zaynab, is the sister of Omar Khadr, a former Guantanamo detainee who allegedly received training from al Qaeda. Their father, Ahmed Said Khadr, was a senior al Qaeda leader with connections to Osama Bin Laden.

   Less than two weeks after Khadr was released from Guantanamo and sent back to Canada, Boyle and Coleman went missing.

   The videos Coleman’s family received offer the only clue about what may have happened to the couple, but provide little proof they were indeed kidnapped. No demands for ransom have been made.

   State Department officials say they are aware of the video and of the disappearance of the couple and are in touch with the family. But they say they can’t say more because of privacy laws.

   A spokesman for the Canadian Foreign Ministry says that the government is aware that Boyle and Coleman have been kidnapped in Afghanistan and is in contact with the Afghans about the case.

   https://www.cnn.com/2014/06/05/world/asia/other-detained-americans/

7. hope
   June 11th, 2014 @ 10:46 pm

   And this American Pastor

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   NEW DEVELOPMENTS FOR U.S. PASTOR JAILED IN IRAN
   03/24/2014 at 9:02 PM
   author-ALANA COOK

   https://www.blackchristiannews.com/news/192.jpg

   Pastor Saeed Abedini

   WASHINGTON — Spring has brought new reason to hope for the release of Christian Pastor Saeed Abedini, a U.S. citizen shackled and imprisoned in Iran.

   The Persian New Year “Nowruz,” which began on the first day of spring, is a 13-day celebration of the rebirth of nature, but it’s also when Iranian prisoners are historically granted amnesty.

   The Iran Daily Brief reported 12 prisoners were released March 20. Although there is no sign yet of clemency for Abedini, politicians and religious leaders remain hopeful.

   “Pastor Saeed Abedini should be released from prison immediately. So, too, should all those languishing in Iranian prisons for merely practicing their faith or expressing their political views,” David Brog, executive director for Christians United for Israel, the largest pro-Israel organization in America, told WND.

   Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry told WND: “I join pastor Abedini’s family in praying for his health, safety and immediate release.”

   In a phone interview, Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, said he can’t comprehend how the president of the free world can seemingly look away while Christians, including Abedini, are jailed in hostile countries for their religious beliefs. At the same time, the U.S. has released prisoners from Guantanamo Bay.

   “This shows Obama’s impotence and lack of concern,” Stockman said. “(Former President Jimmy) Carter even spoke up for imprisoned Americans in the Cold War, but this president seems reluctant to bring up the prisoner situation, whether it’s in North Korea or Iran.”

   Abedini, a U.S. citizen, was sentenced in 2012 to eight years in an Iranian prison on charges related to his religious beliefs.

   Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice, or ACLJ, represents Abedini. He told WND his client is receiving medication and some treatment for beatings stemming from his initial arrest, but he’s still being refused the critical surgery he needs to treat his injuries.

   Stockman believes Obama must pressure the Iranians and that the president could be effective if he would do it the right way.

   “In a clever ploy, if I were president, I would tell Iranian leaders what they are doing is worse than what was done to terrorists in Gitmo,” he said.

   Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, told WND that if the U.S. lets “thugs loose from Guantanamo,” it should be able “to stand up for Christians who have never done anything but try to save souls.”

   “At this point, we ought to be demand his release,’ he said. ‘If we can’t secure the release of nonviolent Christians who commit no crimes, then we shouldn’t be talking about dealing with other nations.”

   Sekulow said the clemency tradition of the Persian New Year opens the door for the Iranian government to quietly release Abedini to his family for further medical care without having to directly admit fault.

   “It’s an important time for any prisoners of conscience, a time when most people are taking off of work because the government shuts down. It would be a key time for the prisoner release when you look at the historical practices of the Iranian government,” he said. “They could say he wouldn’t have to report back to jail.”

   Meanwhile, Abedini’s children grow older in their father’s absence. Jacob just celebrated his sixth birthday with his 8-year-old sister, Rebecca, and their mother, Naghmeh, who has launched a relentless campaign for the release of her husband.

   “I had anticipated that I would battle the Iranian government for my husband’s freedom. I never anticipated that I would also have to battle my own government and that the journey would become even much more difficult than it had been,” she told Fox News last December after the Obama administration failed to negotiate the release of her husband in a deal with Iran.

   In the deal, Iran reportedly received billions in sanctions relief and the ability to keep its centrifuges, key to building nuclear weapons. Also immediately prior to the deal, the U.S. released an Iranian scientist who was being held in a U.S. prison.

   “These brave prisoners of conscience are shining a light on the true nature of the Iranian regime – a regime which has not changed one iota since the recent presidential election,” CUNF’s Brog said. “We in the West must not forget these heroes. And we dare not ignore the troubling truths about Iran to which their continued incarceration testifies.”

   Since Abedini was detained in Iran two years ago, Christian persecution has grown at an alarming rate. One in four of the world’s Christians live in countries now hostile to their faith, according to a report released March 20 by Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

   President Hassan Rouhani’s new regime hasn’t brought Iran’s Christians any relief, according to a new United Nations report that found the Islamic Republic’s Bible believers more persecuted than ever.

   The U.N. also reported Iran has continued to imprison Christians for their faith and has designated house churches and evangelical Christians as “threats to national security.” At least 49 Christians were among 307 religious minorities being held in Iranian jails as of January, noted the U.N., which also blasted the regime for its hostility to Jews, Bahais, Zoroastrians and Dervish Muslims.

   “Most Americans think the U.S. wouldn’t tolerate things getting this bad, but they are,” Gohmert said. “Persecution is growing as nations see us appear to be weaker than we have been.”

   WND recently reported on slaughterhouses where Muslims are killing Christians in Syria.

   “I have never seen something like this,” Christian convert and former Muslim terrorist Walid Shoebat told WND.

   “I have been investigating this story for the past two weeks. The story is probably the most horrific I have ever [done]. It proves with footage actual systematic slaughterhouses of human beings, including Christians in Syria.”

   “Look to your own soul, and understand your own obligation to help the Christians,” Shoebat said.

   As Obama prepares to meet with the Vatican Thursday, Stockman said it would be a good time for both the pope and Obama to “go public on religious liberties and not just give generic statements.”

   “They need to be specific on Christian persecution and pastors locked up in Korea and Iran,” he said.

   Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2014/03/new-developments-for-u-s-pastor-jailed-in-iran/#QYxIpTjvwlB8EWH5.99

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