Posted on 04/21/2009 10:48:59 AM PDT by RobinMasters
The spying conviction of U.S. journalist Roxana Saberi last week by a court in Tehran is just the latest sign that Iran’s ruling clerics are trying to test the resolve of President Obama by taking U.S. citizens hostage, Iran analysts and exiles tell Newsmax.
Roxana Saberi, a natural-born U.S. citizen who has worked as a freelance journalist in Iran for National Public Radio and other U.S. news organizations for the past six years, was convicted over the weekend in Tehran after a closed-door trial that lasted just one day.
Her lawyer, Abdul-Samad Khorramshahi, told reporters after her trial that he still was unsure of all the charges and evidence against her. “I have not read her file, so I cannot confirm” that she made a confession of spying on behalf of the United States, as the government claimed.
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So, Mr. President, when will the Special Forces be sent in to save her? Oh, wait. I forgot that Obama is the TOTUS.
Is this what Biden was referring to when he said that something will happen and it’ll appeara that ‘O’ doesn’t know what he’s doing...? Oh wait. Maybe that was the innocent Somali volunteer coast guard (pirates). hm.
Jimmy Carter redux
What is there to test?
Working for NPR, I assume she’s a commie. Maybe that will win her some obama points, but I doubt it.
I think that was the bailout package.
No, it was the pirate thing.
Maybe it was choosing a church.
No, I bet it was the DVD set for Mr. Brown.
Maybe it was the Easter Egg hunt.
Hard to say....
Well, I think he is flunking the test...
Has Obozo apologized yet?
No doubt about it.... Obama will fail ANY test of his leadership or performance of his sworn duty to defend the United States and the Constitution against all enemy, foreign or domestic..
It is becoming quite clear - Obama is WITH the enemy.
Yeah, as if . . .
To recap: Iran is the testor
Obama & Biden are the pair of testees
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=87F94E2F-1045-49DA-B724-7A62C0C8A861
“Obama’s Hostage Crisis”
By Matt Gurney
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, April 24, 2009
SNIPPET: “While Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s anti-Semitic rhetoric at the UN’s laughably titled “Anti-Racism Conference” has been the main focus of the world’s attention, Iran has been garnering further international headlines for another outrageous act: the imprisonment of an innocent American woman for cynical political gain.
Not content simply to threaten the West with the specter of nuclear rockets, Iran now seeks hostages with which to test the young Obama administration. The pawn in Ahmadinejad’s game is Roxana Saberi, a freelance journalist and American citizen, who has lived in Iran for the last six years. During that time she has filed stories with numerous Western news outlets, while working on a Masters degree (her third) in Iranian studies and international relations. Born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota, she is the daughter of an Iranian-American father and a Japanese-American mother. Academically successful and obviously brave, she has not shied away from reporting Iran’s most controversial actions, and has served as a voice for the Iranian people, speaking out to major news organizations such as the Fox News Channel, National Public Radio and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
No longer.”
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