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Iran finally releases Pastor

Yousef Nadarkhani

 

Iranian church leader Yousef Nadarkhani was released on 26 February as part of a national amnesty issued by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to commemorate the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

CSW’s sources have confirmed that the pastor is now free and is still in Tehran to finish some formal procedures related to his release. He will join his family in Rasht as soon as these formalities are completed.

 

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