BOISE, Idaho (AP) β President Barack Obama has met privately with the wife of an American pastor held prisoner in Iran.
Naghmeh Abedini says she and her two young children spent more than ten minutes with Obama today during his visit to Boise, Idaho, and he assured her that freeing her husband and other Americans jailed in Iran is a top priority.
Christian pastor Saeed Abedini has been in Iranian custody since September 2012 and was sentenced to eight years in prison for what was termed undermining state security. The 34-year-old man is an American citizen of Iranian origin who had lived in Boise with his family.
Naghmeh Abedini says her son asked Obama if he could bring “daddy home” in time for the boy’s seventh birthday in March. She says the president hugged them all and responded that he would “try very hard.”
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