Naghmeh Abedini from Boise, Idaho, wife of Seed Abedini, a detained 35-year old Iranian-American pastor appealed to the U.S. government not to push through the Iran Nuclear Deal. She asked that the nuclear accord is not set until all the imprisoned Americans are released, including her husband. Saeed Abedini has been charged with allegedly compromising Iran's national security by building home-based Christian churches in his native country. He was sentenced by the Iranian court to eight years imprisonment in 2013. The wife is now putting all her hopes for the release of her husband in the hands of the U.S. Congress, according to Christian Today.
"I think that the nuclear deal has made it more difficult. I never asked for Saeed to be part of the deal but I hope that on the sidelines as discussed before, his safety would be secured as we still have some leverage with Iranian government," stated Naghmeh in the early part of the interview.
"I guess I had just put too much expectation, and was giving a lot of hope that with hearing about the deal, I also would get a call that my husband was coming home and it was emotional not hearing that," she added when asked about how she felt on hearing about the deal, according to CNN.
This agreement has created contention with the Republican lawmakers, but Obama defended it, saying it was the only alternative to a nuclear arms race and could prevent more wars in the Middle East, according to Reuters.
The Iran nuclear deal has concluded 20 months of negotiations which started last June in Vienna. The scaling back of Iran's nuclear activity is so the country will not be able to build a nuclear weapon in exchange for relieving oil and financial sanctions against Tehran by the 5+1 group of the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany. Iran will permit U.N. inspectors to monitor military sites, but has the option to challenge requests for access, according to International Business Times.
