{"id":28587,"date":"2011-10-04T18:14:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/u-s-_support_for_iranian_pastor_continues_to_grow\/"},"modified":"2011-10-04T18:14:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:14:05","slug":"u-s-_support_for_iranian_pastor_continues_to_grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28587","title":{"rendered":"U.S. support for Iranian pastor continues to grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports by the semi-official Fars News Agency indicated that the charges against Nadarkhani have since changed and the pastor is now charged with rape and extortion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is a Zionist and has committed security-related crimes,\u201d\u009d Gholomali Rezvanii said in the Fars News report. Renvanii is the deputy governor of Gilan province, where Nadarkhani was tried and convicted.<\/p>\n<p>The White House and State Department released statements on Thursday and Friday, respectively. The White House stated that Nadarkhani &#8220;has done nothing more than maintain his devout faith, which is a universal right for people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/10\/03\/u-s-support-for-iranian-pastor-continues-to-grow\">Read it all<\/a> and there is a lot more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/223644\/20111003\/iran-accuses-nadarkhani-of-rape-zionist-activities-but-execution-not-imminent-final.htm\">there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports by the semi-official Fars News Agency indicated that the charges against Nadarkhani have since changed and the pastor is now charged with rape and extortion. &#8220;He is a Zionist and has committed security-related crimes,\u201d\u009d Gholomali Rezvanii said in the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28587\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,42,144,564,114,203,154,184,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-law-legal-issues","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}