iran sign it is execution order for pastor yousef nadarkhani. hello everyone i am george thomas. >> and i am wendy griffith. news coming from sources inside iran. iran regime has signed the order carried out the sentence to kill pastor yousef nadarkhani. the white house issued a statement condemning iran and urging others to demand his release. franklin gram told "fox & friends," president obama should do more to help nadarkhani. >> president could call for a prayer meeting at the white house and make a statement, we apologized to the afghan because the koran had been burned. he could use the power of the white house to call pastors to have a prayer meet, he hasn't done it. >> nadarkhani has been in prison more than 860 days, he has rejected offerers to recant his christian nafaith. jordan, how soon might this execution take place? >> if you look back the last time this happened to a christian pastor in iran, it was 1990. very similar to the time line we have, the legal team in iran was trying to get documents in the courts. this case went to th

their country from the agreement even through changes of government in october of 2009, yousef nard -- nadarkhani was shocked to find out that his children were being forced to participate in muslim education at school. the pastor had no violent reaction to this, he only asked that his children be granted their rights to freedom of religion. these rights explicitly include parents' rights to bring up children under the religious teaching of the family. for the crime of asking that his rights be respected, pastor yousef was summoned to a tribunal. there, he was arrested and charged with unlawful protesting. this charge was later changed to aposstacy. after almost a year in prison, pastor yousef was convicted and sentenced to death. a panel of judges demanded that he recant his faith. when confronted with this demand, pastor you've self stated, i cannot -- youcef stated, i cannot. while it is difficult to peer past the gates of an iran prison, we have some -- iranian prison, we have some evidence that there has been continued pressure on pastor youcef to recant and that there may have been attempts