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...pull off a rapprochement with Iran's leaders. "They are increasingly convinced that Obama is serious and that he is pursuing something that is more strategic than tactical," Parsi says. "But the question remains: Can he deliver on this?" Seen in this context, the jailing of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi on spy charges last week may have been a maneuver by the regime to manufacture a crisis in order to test Obama's true resolve in mending U.S.-Iranian relations...
...That a government expresses an opinion without seeing the indictment is laughable.' ALI JAMSHIDI, spokesman for Iran's judiciary, after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for the release of Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist on trial for spying...
...possibility of a U.S.-Iran rapprochement began to transcend the nuclear issue and seem no longer a mere fantasy with Washington’s change of atmosphere and Tehran’s continuous pragmatism, the opposing forces to dialogue in Washington and beyond have now found new grounds in Roxana Saberi’s arbitrary imprisonment and President Ahmadinejad’s repeated accusation of Israel of racism. How to resist these negative cues in favor of abundantly positive ones is a diplomatic test of both parties’ good faith for a genuine and meaningful negotiation?...
...detained by North Korean guards last month after allegedly straying across the border, an unmarked halfway point on the Tumen River dividing China and northeastern North Korea. The U.S State Department, which already has its hands full trying to secure the release of 31-year-old Iranian American journalist Roxana Saberi, has been especially tight-lipped about the North Korean case, saying only "numerous channels are being used to hasten their release." (See pictures of the rise of Kim Jong...
...Indeed, the attention paid to Roxana Saberi has elevated her value that much more. Ahmadinejad may yet play the good cop and spring Saberi, and his intervention may be a real sign that he is ready to talk to Obama, but if the arrest of one Miss North Dakota can sidetrack international diplomacy, then dealing with Tehran is not going to be cheap or easy...