Trump Weighs In on Saeed: Obama “Didn’t Even Ask”

Last updated on: December 11, 2013 at 3:31 pm by Bristol Palin

Trump Weighs In on Saeed: Obama “Didn’t Even Ask” 2013-12-11T15:31:27-05:00 Bristol Palin

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As the clock keeps ticking down on Pastor Saeed’s life, President Obama continues to ignore the plight of this American pastor imprisoned in Iran’s worst prison.

In a Breitbart interview, Donald Trump explained the situation in the direct way only he can:

Trump’s interview with Breitbart News came as he had just wrapped up a meeting with Pastor Abedini’s wife, Naghmeh Abedini. “She wanted to thank me because it was something that I picked up on a couple of months ago that while they’re negotiating, they should ask for his release,” Trump said of the meeting. “He’s only in jail because he’s Christian. They should ask for his release.”

“I have many millions of followers; I have two and a half million on Twitter and millions on Facebook. I have a lot of people watching, and they’re people like you. They’re the right people,” he continued. “And it got an amazing response. It brought it into the limelight and the unjust thing that’s taking place. So what happened is she came up and wanted to thank me. She came up with two very excellent lawyers.”

When President Barack Obama’s administration, led by Secretary of State John Kerry, negotiated the new nuclear sanctions deal with the Iranian government and other world leaders, U.S. negotiators made no effort whatsoever to press for the release of the imprisoned Abedini. During the negotiations, Abedini was moved to one of the deadliest prisons in the world–at which, according to American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) attorney Jordan Sekulow, he faces an uncertain future. Even so, despite calls from lawmakers on Capitol Hill and from public policy and political leaders throughout the U.S., Kerry and other State Department negotiators made no effort whatsoever to press Iran for his release.

Trump said he told Pastor Abedini’s wife on Tuesday that it is “a shame” the Obama administration left her husband in the Iranian prison and made no effort to fight for his release.

“The Iran deal is a ridiculous deal to start with,” Trump said. “But to end sanctions before the deal is negotiated is just insane. It’s called ‘Negotiation 101’ and they don’t know it. But they could have just for the sake of asking, they could have had him released. They never even asked.”

“If they said, ‘We really feel it would be good for all of us,’ they would have released him,” he claimed. “They absolutely would have released him. But nobody even asked. They didn’t even have the time to ask.”

As we begin to celebrate Christmas, Saeed’s kids wait for their Daddy to come home, his wife hopes her husband can overcome the lice, rapists, and lack of medication, and our country prays that our President could muster up the courage to demand this American’s release.

You can sign a petition here. You can tweet about it here. You can even write a letter to Iran’s new president here.

(I know many of have already done this – thank you! I think it helps him to know we haven’t forgotten about it, though Obama has intentionally closed his eyes to Saeed’s suffering.)

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