Situation Worsens for American Facing Death for His Faith in Iran

“What do you want for your birthday?” Naghmeh Abedini asked her daughter.

“Daddy.”

Naghmeh knew there was no way she could give her daughter what she — what hundreds of thousands of people across the world — so desperately wanted.

“How many more birthdays will he miss?” Rebekka asked. She turned six without her dad there to blow out the candles. — then, seven.

But her mom had no answer for her children who have now been without their father for over a year.

Read how their nightmare began here.