Saeed Abedini is an Iranian American Christian pastor imprisoned in Iran. He has been detained in Iran since the summer of 2012 and incarcerated in Evin Prison since September 2012. On January 27, 2013, he was sentenced to eight years in prison, reportedly on charges of undermining national security through his Christian evangelical activities in Iran in the early 2000s.
His release has been requested by the ACLU, the ACLJ, by Congress, and many other organizations, yet these requests were ignored in John Kerry's discussions regarding a nuclear deal with Iran.