In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful, with a little help from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, journalist Roxana Saberi has been freed from Evin Prison in Tehran.
Hallelujah, praise the Lord, Allah is great!
See today's LA Times report:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-journalist12-2009may12,0,3372344.story
This startling turn-around happened Sunday in Iran.
Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, explained, "The amount of political will and maneuvering it takes to reduce an eight-year sentence to two years and then commute the last two years and release her on the spot is far greater than having a one-day kangaroo court and sentencing her in the first place."
Judges accepted the defense argument that the US is not a hostile state--and credit for that goes to President Obama and his attempts to reach out to Iran.
According to Borzou Daragahi and Ramin Mostaghim, LAT correspondents in the Middle East, a spokesman for Iran's judiciary said that the Islamic principles of compassion and mercy were also a factor.
Because newspapers are shrinking and cutting back, especially in areas like foreign correspondents, it would be good to write a letter to the editor and publisher thanking them for this report.
letters@latimes.com
eddy.hartenstein@latimes.com
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