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The New York times is reporter that Roxana Saberi, and American journalist operating in Iran is being released from prison today.
Saberi was originally arrested for buying alcohol and the charges escalated from there. She was ultimately convicted of Espionage and sentenced to Eight Years in prison.
Then it got interesting. Obama made friendly overtures to Iran while Clinton was rattling the sabre on Saberi's behalf. Ahmadinejad publicly asked the court to review its finding. Saberi got an appeal and the spy charges were dropped.
What really jumped out at me was this little footnote at the end of a story in the Times:
In the appeal, Mr. Nikbakht argued that the espionage charge should be lifted because the foreign ministry and the judiciary had previously said that there was "no hostility between Iran and the United States." The judges accepted the defense, he said.
Find the entire article here: Iran Releases Journalist Convicted of Spying for U.S.
No hostility? Definite progress being made in the Middle East. Now if we could only accomplish the same thing with Laura Ling and Euna Lee...
