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...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...
...Hengameh Saberi is an S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School. The author has no relation to Ms. Saberi...
...most analysts agree, Saberi and another Iranian-American arrested last year, Esha Momeni, are to be used as leverage in any future U.S.-Iran negotiations, possibly to demand the release of two Iranian nationals taken by U.S. forces in Irbil in 2007. Alternatively, Saberi may be a victim of Iran’s judiciary hardliner’s backlash against the clear signals of an increasingly positive attitude toward a US-Iran rapprochement among various power factions in Tehran...
...What to take away from the Saberi trial now is up to the Obama administration. It could follow the drums of the anti-dialogue voices and use Saberi’s case to once again balk at pursuing negotiation, or it could give credit—for whatever it’s worth—to Ahmadinejad’s public defense of Saberi’s right to appeal and view that, as a signal, Tehran is not willing to lose the diplomatic progress of the past season after Obama’s inauguration. The stakes are too high...
...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...