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After two weeks of self-starvation, Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi ended her hunger strike at Tehran's Evin prison May 4 following news that an appeals hearing would be held next week regarding the 8-year prison sentence handed down by Iran's Revolutionary Court, which found her guilty of spying for the United States. Saberi, who was briefly hospitalized after she refused to drink water, has been imprisoned since January, when she was reportedly arrested in the nation's capital for trying to purchase a bottle of wine (possession of alcohol is illegal in Iran). Since her April...
...This represents an assault to Lebanon’s sovereignty that we condemn. Elections have to be free in order for representative government to function. An official from the Saudi Arabian government justified the use of such dubious techniques as a way to oppose Iranian influence—as Iran has funded Hezbollah, a militant Shi’a group in the south of Lebanon...
...nearly two weeks, Roxana Saberi has been refusing food. The jailed Iranian-American journalist, who was sentenced by Iran's Revolutionary Court to 8 years in Tehran's Evin prison on charges of spying for the U.S., continues to proclaim her innocence while both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continue to call for her release. So far, the case's presiding judge has not been moved, calling the fast a ploy for propaganda purposes. One judiciary spokesman denied the news altogether: "She is in good physical condition and not on a hunger strike," Ali Reza Jamshidi...
...Mitavanim.' MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, Iranian President, using the Farsi words for We Can, apparently borrowed from Barack Obama's "Yes We Can" slogan, in his re-election...
Ronald Reagan beat Roosevelt's 24-hour effectiveness record when the 52 U.S. diplomats held hostage by Iranian militants for 444 days were released on Jan. 20, 1981 - the same day on which he took office. Reagan's next 99 days were a bit more subdued, but they still featured $41.4 billion in proposed budget cuts, large tax breaks, the formation of an oversight council to combat government corruption and a dramatic assassination attempt. When John Hinckley Jr. shot Reagan on March 30, 1981, the President's approval rating jumped as high as 68%, but by the 100-day mark...