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>> arthel: an iranian pastor sentenced to death for his faith has been freed. the 35-year-old man was imprisoned for three years in a waiting execution for refusing to renounce his christian faith. today a washington-based watchdog group says he was acquitted of the charges against him and released with time served. coming up later this hour action we'll speak with counter terror analyst and middle east expert lisa baktari about the timing of the release and what this means for other iranian prisoners facing similar charges. >> rick: the pakinstani based haqqani network says the u.s. and nato ...

Counter terror analyst and middle east expert joins us now. the conventional thinking, lisa, has been that you either bomb iran or let iran get the because, the nuclear bomb. you might say there might be a third way. what is it? >> right. so the third way, a way that we haven't actually used yet, and that is either to enforcenon militaristic actions in the form of sanctions that are well implemented and well enforced and more importantly, to support the people of iran in a popular uprising, which we lost the opportunity in 2009. now, the military option should never be taken off the table in t...