Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Monday, June 29, 2015
IRAN- Iran imprisonment marks grim milestone
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| Saeed Abedini |
American Pastor Saeed Abedini has now spent 1,000 days in captivity in
Iran – nearly three years suffering in prison – separated from his wife, Naghmeh,
and their two young children.
No one could have imagined that he would be imprisoned this long when he
was taken into custody by Iranian regime in 2012 simply because of his
Christian faith. Pastor Saeed was in
Iran working on an orphanage when he was unexpectedly taken into custody by
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
In January 2013, Pastor Saeed was convicted of undermining the national
security of Iran for gathering with Christians in private homes from 2000 to
2005. He was sentenced to 8-years in prison.
Pastor Saeed has endured much in the past 1,000 days. He still suffers
from physical injuries that require much-needed medical attention – injuries
received from past beatings by prison guards. He also faces psychological
torture and as recently as a couple of weeks ago – he received another round of
beatings.
Monday, June 8, 2015
iran- Dr. Antonio Stango : If You Respect the Iranian People, You Should Support Them, not the Regime
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| Dr. Antonio Stango |
Recently
Linda Mason of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership wrote an editorial for CNN, suggesting that Americans have a
mistaken view of the people of Iran. She describes a recent trip that she took
to the Islamic Republic and the surprise that she felt at finding the people to
be warm, open, and interested in Western culture.
I’ve
heard this argument many times before, but I have a hard time believing that
the average westerner views everyday Iranians, as Mason says, through the prism
of the 1979 hostage-taking at the US embassy. I’m sure that the average
American understands that that incident was the work of a group of Islamist
revolutionaries, and not the entire population of the country, working in
tandem.
About
half of the population of today’s Iran hadn’t even been born yet at the time of
the revolution and the hostage crisis. A person would have to have a
one-dimensional view of the country and its people to believe that such events
reflect on the character or ideologies of people who had nothing to do with
them.
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