US reporter leaves jail in Iran, lawyer says

[IraGlacialis]

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US reporter leaves jail in Iran, lawyer says

TEHRAN, Iran – A lawyer for a U.S. journalist jailed in Iran says she has been freed from prison after an appeals court suspended her eight-year jail sentence.
Roxana Saberi, a 32-year-old dual Iranian-American citizen, was convicted last month of spying for the U.S. and sentenced to eight years in prison. An appeals court reduced her jail term on Monday to a two-year suspended sentence.
Her lawyer, Abdolsamad Khorramshahi, tells The Associated Press that she was released and is "now out of jail."
Earlier Monday, Saberi's father, said he would make plans to return home with his daughter in the next few days. Saberi parents live in Fargo, North Dakota and had traveled to Iran to seek her release.

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[Stainless Steel Rat]

Some journalist probing where a tyrannical, schizophrenic Government doesn't want her to go, but can't kill her her outright because that would cause an International incident....

Accuse her of 'spying', give her a jail term, then 'magnanimously' let her go (and get her the %$% out of country forever).

At least that is my take; and it could be wrong, but that's what it feels like to me..YMMV.

Press on.

[California Joe]

I think you've got that just about right, Rat.

I'll never understand why people act surprised when things like this happen. What the f*ck did you think they were going to do when you went there in the first place to act like a nosy female reporter?

[IranianMob]

election is near or she couldnt leave this place THAT easy.