Ex-Wife Tells of Abuse & Betrayal Behind #SaveSaeed

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From the fall of 2012 through 2015, imprisoned Iranian-American Pastor Saeed Abedini and his wife, Naghmeh, were the public face of persecuted Christians. As part of a global #SaveSaeed campaign, millions of dollars were raised, and Saeed was freed from prison in January 2016.

Yet when Naghmeh revealed that she’d been abused by her husband, she went from being the darling of the Christian community to an outcast.