Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, front left, speaks with Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, center, and Washington Episcopal Bishop John Bryson Chane, right, during a meeting in Tehran Sept. 17. Cardinal McCarrick and the Episcopal bishop were part of a delegation of Christian and Muslim leaders who were in Iran appealing for the release of U.S. hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal who were taken into custody along the Iran-Iraq border in July, 2009, and charged with espionage.