and with us from atlanta george via skype is david edla, from eva ministries. jordan, let me begin with you. my understanding is that the iranian officials have questioned pastor yusef nardarkhani is in his cell. is this encouraging? >> it is encouraging and troubling. officials from iran made a visit to gilan province to meet with the pastor to inquire about his treatments, supposedly and the judicial proceedings. what we're concerned about is lawyers. any time government officials visit your client without an attorney being present, they can walk him into another trap. it goes from zie being a zin zionist, and now you have the deputy saying he is a convicted rapist. he has already been convicted of rape, extortion, and running a brothel. in iran, a rapist is put to death. >> these are charges that the iranian government authorities -- they love to slap these on people across the country for all kinds of reasons. but apostasy is one issue. is there a sense that the government realized this man was running some 400 people in his house church. he was active. he