chicago who died because of the gun violence, primarily gang-related violence in chicago? the hometown of barack obama. sean: thanks for being with us. a christian pastor, taken prisoner inside iran. the iranian-born american remains behind bars. no formal charges have been filed. we will hear from his desperate wife. also, the u.s. attorney on the case, and then famed french actor, businessman, renounces his french citizenship. he is now my favorite french actor girard departu will join us. coming up, greg gutfeld is here coming up, greg gutfeld is here to try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we ve got ink.
foxnews.com. a fox news contributor and been working with tiffany barons from our office. what we have right now, sean, is a situation not unlike the prisoner who was eventually released. will take international pressure. the crimes alleged here are not public. they have not indicted. but it s because he s a christian. the islamic regimes have continued to crack down in iran and in egypt. the coptic christians in egypt having an awful time. and we have a u.s. citizen. we have a u.s. citizen detained in a horrible facility, jail niran, and we have got to do everything we can global tow get him released because right now, the situation is grave for anybody in this situation. but again, we have a u.s. citizen, who is being not only penalized but held, not only against his will, but you don t know what is happening to him. his wife, you are talking to right now and family other are missing their husband.
iran s most notorious prisons since late september for charges that have not been made public, other than that he is a convert christian. he was born in iran and granted u.s. citizenship in 2010, after marrying an american woman. since then, he has traveled back to iran to visit family multiple times and has been questioned for his christian work throughout the country. now he is being held, physically and emotionally abused and could face a lengthy prison term or possibly the death penalty. now the american center for law & justice has gotten involved in hopes of having him released. so why is the obama administration, the u.n., the state department? we have the wife of the reverend, and from the center of law & justice, jay sekulo. obviously, he has gone back and and forth here. had little problems, but not big problems. what happened in this case that was different?
chicago who died because of the gun violence, primarily gang-related violence in chicago? the hometown of barack obama. sean: thanks for being with us. a christian pastor, taken prisoner inside iran. the iranian-born american remains behind bars. no formal charges have been filed. we will hear from his desperate wife. also, the u.s. attorney on the case, and then famed french actor, businessman, renounces his french citizenship. he is now my favorite french actor girard departu will join us. coming up, greg gutfeld is here to react. (announcer) when subaru owners look in the mirror, they see more than themselves. so we celebrate our year-end with the share the love event. get a great deal on a new subaru and 250 dollars goes to your choice of five charities.
i believe that this time, the revolutionary guard has been handling his case and previously, the intelligence police was. i believe the recent change from the intelligence police to the revolutionary guard has changed the way they have been treating christians and christian activities in iran. sean: right. jay, not different from what we seeing, captic christians are persecuted in egypt. a lot of christians in the muslim world this is not uncommon. it s happening more and more as a matter of fact as we see the rise of radicalism. what have you found out in this particular case? do you have access had tohim? his lawyers have been denied access to him in iran. the real troubling thing is first of all, we are talking about a u.s. citizen. you mentioned that we did not have state department help right now. we are now this is the first time this has gone public. this is a story that came out today, it was posted on