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Iranian Pastor‘s Attorney Allegedly Sentenced to 9 Years In Prison for ’Acting Against National Security’

The tragic saga surrounding Iran’s detainment of Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani forges on, as the Christian faith leader continues to face a death sentence following apostasy charges that were waged in 2009. Despite international calls to release Nadarkhani, new reports indicate that the Iranian regime may be doubling down on its stance with a startling prison sentence for the pastor’s attorney, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah.

Pastor Youcefs Attorney Allegedly Sentenced to 9 Years In Prison for Acting Against National Security

Iranian Attorney Mohammad Ali Dadkhah (Image Credit: The Guardian)

Dadkhah, who has represented Nadarkhani and who is known as a prominent human rights advocate, has allegedly been sentenced to nine years in prison for “acting against national security.” This purported sentencing, teamed with the original death charge that was given to his client, continues to show the ongoing human rights struggles Iranian citizens face.

(Related: Iran Slams Terry Jones Over Koran Burning & Demands U.S. Apology: ‘Absurd, Insulting & Provoking’)

As The Blaze has reported for months, Nadarkhani’s charges were waged over his conversion from Islam to Christianity. Dadkhah’s sentencing, it seems, has resulted from his defense of the pastor and others who were detained following Iran’s disputed 2009 elections. In addition to his alleged prison sentence, the lawyer has reportedly been banned from teaching in Iranian universities and from practicing law for the next 10 years.

Pastor Youcefs Attorney Allegedly Sentenced to 9 Years In Prison for Acting Against National Security

Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani

“I have been convicted of acting against the national security, spreading propaganda against the regime and keeping banned books at home,” Dadkhah said in an interview with The Guardian. ”I was in a court in Tehran defending one of my clients, Davoud Arjangi, a jailed political activist on death row when the judge told me that my own sentence has been approved and I will be shortly summoned to jail to serve the nine-year sentence.”

Jordan Sekulow, the executive director of The American Center for Law and Justice, is worried over these revelations and how they will impact the continued fight to free Nadarkhani.

Pastor Youcefs Attorney Allegedly Sentenced to 9 Years In Prison for Acting Against National Security

Pastor Nadarkhani and his family

“The news that this renowned human rights attorney has been sentenced to prison by Iranian officials is very troubling,” Sekulow said. “With his attorney facing nine years in prison, and no other lawyer likely to take the case, Pastor Youcef has no legal advocate, which places him at greater risk.”

Read more about Dadkhah’s alleged prison sentence here.

(H/T: Fox News)

Comments (31)

  • dquak
    Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:55am

    How can a prison sentence be “alleged”? It either is or it isn’t. The sentence may be a ciminal act considering the criminals that run Iran, but it can’t be an “alleged” prison sentence.

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  • Free2speakRN
    Posted on May 6, 2012 at 2:42am

    Obama trusts these people with our lives.

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  • Gypsy123
    Posted on May 6, 2012 at 2:20am

    Psalm 55:22
    Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you;he will never let the righteous fall.

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  • Bruce P.
    Posted on May 5, 2012 at 10:42pm

    How utterly weak the faith of the Iranians must be to feel threatened by the faith of another.

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  • AllAmericanGirl22
    Posted on May 5, 2012 at 9:07pm

    The only thing that can save this man and his family is God and prayer. Our government obviously won’t do anything. This is extrememly tragic. As Americans we need to support this man and his family.

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  • Eyeball
    Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:15am

    Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani shouldn’t fear because I am sure Hillary Clinton will rush to his aid like she did to the blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng. Uh-huh!

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  • girlnurse
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 3:26pm

    Where’s Hillary? Oh she’s too busy going around talking to gays and lesbians…sigh
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/06/hillary-clinton-gay-rights-speech-geneva_n_1132392.html?ref=mostpopular

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  • Arcangel Michael
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 3:00pm

    Jesus, I trust in You

    http://thedivinemercy.org/message/devotions/chaplethistory.php

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AySdEJx50Z0&feature=related

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  • christianUSA
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 1:40pm

    Intolerance false injustice of islam sharia unlaw bozo courts! My prayers for Youcef Nadarkhani that he trust Christ Jesus to everlasting life and for attorney Mohammad Ali Dadkhah that he would hold in confidence that he defended Christ in prison and rejoice in Jesus as savior from our bondage.

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  • 4XGrace
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 1:26pm

    Islam, the religion of “Peace” speaks volumes through this story. Take note World, Islam is going to get you, run you down and skrw you. Don’t believe the lying peaceniks and the “moderate” muslims … Islam IS NOT nor EVER WAS a moderate religion … it can never be moderated.

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  • Clmsadjman
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:20am

    I really think we should put a few attorneys in jail here its not like we would run out of them starting with John Edwards. Iran is a dictatorship that will never change its ways. They threw the Shah out because he was brutal and the people had no rights or limited rights and the replaced it with a system much worst. The people that started the Iranian revolution are very similiar to the OWS they are all thugs bent on getting revenge on all that oppose them. Unfortunately it will end badly for Iran in coming years with terrible bloodshed especially if Israel decides to release some of those reported 270 nukes they have. Its a failed country and the people will be the ones to pay the price and it will be high.

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  • thibx
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:45am

    there are a lot of idiots here in america i would like to send over there to live.

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  • holy ghostbuster
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:38am

    Religion poisons everything. This is sad. On one hand you have crazy, delusional, Muslims persecuting this Christian pastor for his crazy, delusional, Christian beliefs. Very sad.

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    • Individualism
      Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:46am

      Religion is the number one killer of human beings even more than money lol

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    • Al J Zira
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 2:38pm

      You’re an ass!

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:50pm

      Yup. Although, even without religion, I imagine fascism would find a way of creeping into SOME states at least SOME of the time–as it has with Iran. Tyranny doesn’t NEED (though it has often been helped historically) religion to succeed. Of course, religions have also spawned rebel movements–the thing about religions, is that they are such a broad group (especially over their history), that it really doesn’t make any sense other than to simply call any particular a group with some “more-or-less” shared ideas in any given time and place. Now, I do agree that if humans were more conservative in what beliefs they assented to, I think religions would be treated much more skeptically and a lot of, as far as any can reasonably tell, gratuitous suffering could have been/would be avoided.

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  • Individualism
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:36am

    There more of a threat to people inside their country than they are outside their country.

    Report Post » Individualism  
  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:27am

    Thus it shall become the way of America under Obama the Emperor; he will have anyone associated with those who dare to defend the oppositon jailed or executed along with those who dare to stand for the truth and what is right and honorable and just.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:41am

      It will take a significant event to move us in this direction but yes, it is coming and do not doubt that the State has become a demigod.

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  • qzak491
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:19am

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    It’s time we flew a drone over the capitol of Iran and drop a fake bomb with a note, This could have been a nuke, think about that, give them a dose of reality.

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  • SREGN
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:11am

    These Persians and Assyrians have always been at war with the children of God.

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  • momrules
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:07am

    Nothing will change the course that the Iranian’s are set on as far as Pastor Nardakani…….not a book burning, not the civilized world’s condemnation of them and not an attorney.

    The Pastor is a tool for them to use……..do as we want or we will kill him……….blackmail. The Pastor’s eventual fate rests with God. I will keep praying for him as I do for Asia Bibi and Bowe Bergdahl. Now I will add Mohammad Dadkhah in my prayer.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:24am

      Heard anything from the White House about either of these men? Nadarkhani’s situation has been going on for a year now. cricket, cricket, cricket.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:05am

    Obama will talk some sense into them. Look how things have changed for the better in Iran since we got rid of that cowboy talking about the “axis of evil”. Obama’s oratory skills have turned them into “rational” allies.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:04am

    This is just the beginning.

    Praying for all of them, for GOD’s hedge to be around them and HIS spirit over, around, under, before and aft of them.

    THANK YOU, JESUS, for each opportunity YOU provide for us to share YOU with others, even and especially those in all prisons waiting to know YOU. YOU lead us into the strangest places and situations, sometimes, GOD; but that’s ok because YOU ARE already there before us. In JESUS’ SWEET AND MIGHTY NAME, amen.

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:03am

    I surely wish we would have “ended” Iran and turned it into glass one day after the release of our citizens from their captivity as hostages. I was chomping at the bit to go (many of us believed we were and were let down that we didn’t)… but heck, I’m a trained war-monger anyways…

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  • zman173rd
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:02am

    Sounds like our progressive movement. Ban bibles or any mention of Christianity in school. take away crosses from public view, do not allow kids to wear shirts to school depicting christianity, take down the ten commandments on public buildings, don’t allow the nativity in town squares, the list goes on. The progressives are not your friends. Only difference is they promote the gay agenda, while arain kills them off.

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on May 5, 2012 at 10:45pm

      Where have Bibles or any mention of Christianity been banned in schools? One example.

      You can bring as many Bibles as you want, you can talk about Christianity as you want, you can pray all you want. But you cannot mandate that people pray or believe as you do.

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  • Fubared
    Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:58am

    Send in our LGBLT faction of CAIR to glitter bomb them.

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