Trump said that if elected in 2016, he would successfully free four Americans serving jail sentences in Iran. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told a crowd at the US Capitol that if elected in 2016, he would successfully free four Americans serving jail sentences in Iran in less than three months before he was ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's deputy foreign minister says Iranian diplomats discussed the case of Americans still held captive by Tehran. The issue was raised on the sidelines of negotiations in Vienna earlier this month that led to the landmark deal on curbing Iran's nuclear program. Abbas Araghchi told reporters in the Iranian capital on Wednesday ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Monday unanimously passed a resolution calling on Iranian officials to immediately release three Americans held in Iran and help locate a fourth. The measure, which passed 90-0, calls for Iran to free Saeed Abedini, Amir Hekmati and Jason Rezaian and cooperate with the U.S. government to locate and return former ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The wife of an American pastor held prisoner in Iran says President Barack Obama will meet with her during his short visit to Idaho on Wednesday. The Idaho Statesman (http://bit.ly/1xTIYRc) reports Naghmeh Abedini received confirmation Tuesday that Obama agreed to meet with her and her two young children. Abedini recently had ...

[caption id="attachment_141561" align="alignright" width="203"] The armed forces identification card of Iranian-American Amir Mirza Hekmati is seen in this undated still image taken from video in an undisclosed location made available to Reuters TV on January 9, 2012.[/caption] (Reuters) - The United States called on Tuesday for the release of U.S....

Washington (CNN)-- Former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati has been convicted in Iran by a secret court of "practical collaboration with the U.S. government" and sentenced to 10 years in prison, his sister told CNN on Friday. The news follows a public campaign by Hekmati's family to win his release from Iran, where he has been held for nearly three years ...

President Obama called on North Korea and Iran to release two Americans held captive since 2012, using an address at the National Prayer Breakfast to demand that foreign nations respect religious freedoms and to declare that the men deserve to be free. Obama said Kenneth Bae, a missionary held in North Korea, and Saeed Abedini, a Christian pastor ...

A U.S. clergyman who has been held in Iran since October 21 has told relatives he will be returning home on a flight arriving in Los Angeles later on October 23. Eddie Romero spoke to his family by telephone on October 22 from Tehran. Romero traveled to Iran in order to protet against the imprisonment of Christian converts in the Islamic republic....

Renowned evangelist Billy Graham is asking Iran's president Hassan Rouhani for the release of Pastor Saeed Abedini from prison, pointing out that such an action might be perceived by U.S. leaders as a significant step in reducing tensions. "On September 26, the one-year anniversary of Pastor Abedini's imprisonment, thousands will attend prayer vigils ...

WASHINGTON The United States on Wednesday repeated its call for Tehran to help three Americans Robert Levinson, Amir Hekmati and Saeed Abedini return to their families after lengthy detentions in Iran. The State Department said in a statement that the U.S. is "respectfully" requesting the assistance from Iran's new president, Hasan Rouhani,...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- An Iranian court has rejected an appeal by an American pastor to reduce his eight-year prison sentence, a human-rights group representing his family in the U.S. said Monday. The decision by a two-judge panel on the Tehran Court of Appeals came Sunday, but the panel refused to provide Saeed Abedini's lawyer with a copy of the ruling,...

BERLIN The US government on Friday urged Iran to release American-Iranian pastor Saeed Abedini from Tehrans notorious Evin Prison. The 32-year-old father of two young children is believed to have been arrested because of his Christian beliefs, and may face the death penalty. His trial begins in Tehran on Monday before Judge Pir-Abassi, the so-called ...