Five members of an Iranian house church are missing after government agents arrested them on Friday (Aug. 26) without a warrant and took them to an undisclosed location.
The Obama administration is denying ransom claims regarding the transfer of $400 million in cash to Tehran for the release of American prisoners in Iran.
White house spokesman Josh Earnest recently acknowledged that part of the $400 million the U.S. gave to Iran as part of the Iran Nuclear Deal could have gone to fund terrorism.
Iranian authorities charged a well-known pastor with “acts against national security” and beat another as persecution of Christians continued the past month.