Posted on 04/22/2009 2:40:51 PM PDT by Abakumov
We received a desperate plea yesterday from inside Iran on behalf of Roxana Saberi, the 31-year-old Iranian-American journalist convicted in Iran of espionage. Her fiance, award-winning Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, wrote, "It is with tears in my eyes that I say she is innocent and guiltless."
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Iran does not recognize the rejection of forfeiting of the Iranian citizenship. In their eyes THEY determine who is an Iranian citizen. Having an Iranian parent or husband is enough for them to determine one as falling under their jurisdiction once in the country.
A second passport does seldomly help, although it's clear that this case is a politically moticated hostage taking to use an American citizen as a bargaining chip.
I’ve just been reading around a bit about her. Apparently her father was Iranian, her mother was Japanese, and she was born in Fargo, ND. She has lived in Iran for about 6 years, and was first arrested for buying a bottle of wine, before being charged with spying. She has worked as a reporter, apparently mostly for NPR.
And she is a former Miss North Dakota.
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