Posted on 05/11/2009 7:22:54 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Lawyers for the 32-year old said the court had reduced the eight-year jail sentence to a suspended two-year term and she would soon be freed.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The catch is that the GOP wants to welcome this native-born turncoat into the big tent and run her for president in 2012.
A person can hold dual citizenship and not be a traitor. Perhaps it was the only way that she could remain in Iran so as to cover the stories she was reporting. How else would we know about the horrors of the Iranian regime if there was no one there to cover it for American press organizations?
How the hell do you get this "traitor" garbage? I've known a few people from Iran and they hate the Iranian regime. Saberi took a job to report (as best she could) the backward crap that's going on over there.
yes, in exchange we have to send them Helen Thomas. It is a win-win!
Exactly - it was making Obama look bad.
What do the Mullahs not have ultimate power over? Totalitarianism is having total power, not exercising it. If the minions do what they are told, why micromanage?
Are the Iranians as complete in their totalitarianism? No. They are only about equal to Hitler. Most everything in Germany ran without NAZI control, yet nothing ran with their disapproval.
This person surrendered their citizenship. Read along with me section 8 on pages 4 and 5 of your United States Passport.
8. Loss of U.S. Citizenship: Under certain circumstances, you may lose your U.S. citizenship by performing, voluntarily and with the intention to relinquish U.S. citizenship, any of the following acts (1) being naturalized in a foreign state; (2)taking an oath or making a declaration to a foreign state; (3) serving in the armed forces of a foreign state; (4) accepting employment with a foreign government; or (5) formally renouncing U.S. citizenship before a U.S. consular officer overseas.
This person did items number 1, 2, and 4. We do not know if she did items 3 and 5.
Further, we have this report:
“Saberi, a citizen of both the United States and Iran, was arrested for working in the Islamic Republic after her press credentials had expired. She was later accused of spying.
The United States had said the charges were baseless and demanded her immediate release. Tehran does not recognize dual nationality and told Washington not to interfere.”
Save your tears for the people that nobody talks about. The 50,000 plus U.S. citizens being held against their will in central and south America.
Yes, let's do that.
8. Loss of U.S. Citizenship: Under certain circumstances, you may lose your U.S. citizenship by performing, voluntarily and with the intention to relinquish U.S. citizenship, any of the following acts (1) being naturalized in a foreign state;
Dual citizenship is recognized by our government. This is nothing new.
(2)taking an oath or making a declaration to a foreign state;
I have not seen evidence that she has done this. Have you?
(3) serving in the armed forces of a foreign state;
You're not sure about this one, eh?
(4) accepting employment with a foreign government;
She worked for the BBC and NPR. Unless I missed something, I do not see that she worked for the Iranian State. Obviously she was a thorn in their side; that's why she was arrested.
or (5) formally renouncing U.S. citizenship before a U.S. consular officer overseas.
Obviously she has not done this since our State Department still considers her a US citizen.
These passport clauses are intended to server ties with people that have the intention to do harm to the United States. Through her works, Saberi clearly does not belong in that category. She made herself an enemy of the Iranian regime, not America.
It appears that this little darling working for NPR and BBC had access to the Iranian Presidency Research Centre:
TEHRAN (AFP) – A lawyer for US-born reporter Roxana Saberi, freed this week from a Tehran jail, said on Wednesday the spy charges she had faced arose after she obtained a classified report on the US war on Iraq.
"She had a report about the US attack on Iraq prepared by the strategic research centre at the (Iranian) presidency," Saleh Nikbakht told AFP.
"The research centre deemed the report as classified. But she had not used it at all." Nikbakht did not say how Saberi had managed to gain access to the confidential report.
Do you really believe that she was going to use this classified report about the US attack on Iraq against the Iranian government?
Uh... no. The Iranians might have believed that, but again, this is no proof that she was trying to hurt the US.
She said it was still unclear if she would also travel to France, where a film she co-scripted premiered at the Cannes Film festival on Thursday. The film's director is Saberi's partner.
Let's see now. The Cannes Film Festival is a stronghold of conservative thinking, right? And little Ms sunshine co-scripted a film about the evil American invasion of Iraq with her "partner"? Many, many people have been duped by this.
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