After days of fasting and praying, Naghmeh Abedini was granted a private meeting with President Obama, which she hopes will save the life of her husband.
In a race against time, Naghmeh has fought for over two years to have her husband Pastor Saeed Abedini released from a prison in Iran.
Saeed was arrested in July 2012 while continuing his work to build orphanages in the city of Rasht. He was imprisoned in September for allegedly compromising national security and was sentenced to 8 years in prison. He still faces the death penalty for committing apostasy, since he converted from Islam to Christianity many years ago.
During Naghmeh’s 10-minute, closed-door meeting with the president, a miracle that no red-blooded patriot would believe may have occurred in such a liberal leaning, Islamo-symapthizing leader.
“I feel like there was a heart connection. As much as I needed to see him to make it more personal, I think it had the effect where he saw us and we weren’t just a news story,” she told TheBlaze Wednesday night, with hope and encouragement.
“We are a family torn apart. I could see compassion in his eyes.”
But the alleged change in the most powerful man on earth didn’t come from Naghmeh’s plea. Instead, it came from the most unlikely source: her 6-year-old son Jacob.
In his small voice, Jacob reportedly asked Obama if he would bring his father home in time for his birthday on March 17, a question that Naghmeh says changed the demeanor of the president.
“President Obama said, ‘When is your birthday?’” Naghmeh told TheBlaze.
“And then there was a look of shock [when Jacob responded] and he kind of stepped back and he said, ‘I don’t know if I can do it that quick’ and he said, ‘I will try.’”
“I could see in his eyes that he’s a dad and for him to see that that’s what Jacob wants — it was a really emotional moment,” she said, adding that Obama seemed visibly touched by the boy’s plea.
Jacob made his first plea to President Obama when his mother filmed him praying for his father’s release:
Naghmeh told the president that she had been fervently praying for this moment and that “this meeting was set up by God.” She added that he “smiled and nodded” in agreement.
Obama assured her that her husband’s release was a “top priority.”
She told TheBlaze that he also urged her to meet with Rabbi David Saperstein, an ambassador for international religious freedom, to get the ball rolling.
Although Naghmeh is ecstatic about the promise, she is still cautious in taking the president at his word, vowing to continue petitioning the government on Saeed’s behalf.
“It’s definitely encouraged me more and made me more hopeful and at the same time I’m still [thinking] ‘Let’s see what happens,’” she concluded.
“The skeptic in me is also watching to see where are they going to go after this meeting. How much of a priority … how soon can they get him home?”
While it’s easy to doubt Obama’s willingness to act o n behalf of a Christian life in the Middle East and against Muslim society, one still wants to believe that a miracle occurred that day and that his heart was softened by divine intervention.
Only time will tell, and for Saeed, that could mean the difference between life and death.
Perhaps the voice of a child is the final force to open Obama’s ears and eyes to the plight of Christians under Islamic rule.
Please, share this story in the hope that Saeed will be returned to his family, God willing by March 17.
Source: http://madworldnews.com/
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