Iran Releases Journalist Roxana Saberi

US journalist freed by Iran, reunites with parents

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer

TEHRAN, Iran – An American journalist jailed for four months in Iran was freed Monday and reunited with her parents after an appeals court suspended her eight-year prison sentence on charges of spying for the U.S. Her parents said they would bring her home to the U.S. within days.

The release of Roxana Saberi, a 32-year-old dual Iranian-American citizen, clears a major snag in President Barack Obama’s efforts to engage Iran in a dialogue after decades of shunning the country. Washington had called the charges against Saberi baseless and repeatedly demanded her release.

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Oh, that was a “major snag?”  How about all the American soldiers Iran has killed in Iraq???  How about all the “Death to America” marches?  How about all the nuclear facilities built in open defiance to the wishes of the West???  And, you call her little incarceration a “major snag” to Obama’s “efforts to engage Iran in a dialogue?”

Get real.   Obama is straining out a gnat from his drink, yet swallowing a camel.

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