Iran to release Idaho Pastor Saeed Abedini

The wife of an Idaho pastor who is among four detained Americans being released from Iran said Saturday that the news “was a huge burden lifted off.” Naghmeh Abedini told The Associated Press that after she learned that Saeed Abedini was to be released, she woke her kids up and told them “Daddy was coming home.” “They were just excited. They couldn’t believe it,” she said in a telephone interview from Boise. Iran agreed to release four detained Americans in exchange for seven Iranians held or charged in the United States, U.S. and Iran officials said Saturday. A fifth American detained in Iran, a student, was released in a move unrelated to a prisoner swap earlier between the two countries/ Associated Press . More here.