From: Fox News
President Obama will meet Wednesday with the family of an American pastor who has been languishing in an Iranian prison for more than two years.
The American Center for Law and Justice announced late Tuesday that Obama, who was scheduled to visit Boise, Idaho to push for some of the initiatives he discussed in his State of the Union address, will meet with Naghmeh Abedini, the wife of Saeed Abedini.
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President Obama has personally called on Iranian President Hasan Rouhani to free Abedini, as well as Amir Hekmati, a U.S. Marine who was charged with spying when he went to Iran to visit his grandmother and Robert Levinson, a CIA operative who disappeared in 2007 while in Iran supposedly researching a cigarette smuggling case. A senior White House official told Fox News that Obama raised the cases in a September 2013 phone call. Secretary of State John Kerry has also publicly called for Abedini’s release.
