Speaking for the first time since being released from an Iranian jail, Roxana Saberi said she just wants to spend time with her parents. She added she wants to thank all the people all over the world that have helped her:
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Abdollah Momeni: Prisoner of the day | 2 | Nov 30, 2012 |
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These were funny clips
by Davood_Banayan on Thu May 14, 2009 03:06 PM PDTAmericans for a Democratic Republic in Iran.
Ms. Saberi is awesome. God bless her and God bless America.
The freedom of Ms. Saberi, an American citizen shows the truth about Iran.
America is the best.
And no one can mess with the best.
overall this is good news.
by igetit (not verified) on Wed May 13, 2009 02:28 PM PDToverall this is good news. the hostages should also have been freed fast and not made TV show for ABC and cnn.
the guy ghobadi the filmmaker claimed she was his fiancee. but her mother pushed him aside.(as reported)
so now ghobadi can make his movie: The spy who loved me
While talking about copying documents, does anybody have a used
by Mola Nasredeen on Wed May 13, 2009 01:11 PM PDTcopier for sale?
the color of her scarf !!
by OMG (not verified) on Wed May 13, 2009 12:21 PM PDTthe color of her scarf !!
Well now that we know
by Abarmard on Wed May 13, 2009 11:25 AM PDTPlease change the Iranian of the day to the Spy released.
Thank you
she had a secret documet
by mohsenian (not verified) on Wed May 13, 2009 10:12 AM PDTThis is a news of todays BBC (Farsi):
May be she was a litle guilty? Her laywer told:
وکیل صابری: موکلم سندی محرمانه در اختیار داشترکسانا صابری
وکیل رکسانا صابری گفت که موکلش یک سند محرمانه دولتی را "بدون مجوز لازم" کپی کرده و نزد خود نگه داشته است. اما هرگز از آن استفاده نکرده است.
It is nice that she is free. But we should not forget other Iranian (women and men) in Ewin, who does not have american passport and have to stay in Ewin.
Dear Iranian.com readers and contributors belivers of Free Iran
by HATEIRI (not verified) on Wed May 13, 2009 09:36 AM PDTWith Iranian.com permission I would like to contribute
1 minute of silence tomorrow May 14, 2009. to all those who fought for a free Iran but were murdered by the fascist and totalitarian regime of Iran.
12:00 PM EST, 9:00 AM PST and 11:00 AM CST
here are the one's I know please include your list as well. Let us recognize them and pay tribute to them and let the cockroaches in Tehran know that we the Iranian people have not forgot about our fallen heroes. We, the Iranian people will always remember them for their heroic act and their love for their country, their nation and their people.
Omid Mirsayafi
Zahra Kazemi
Forough Farakhzad
Dr. Bakhtiar
The 1000 who were brutally murdered by the regime in the late 1980's
The 1000 who were executed by the regime at the beginning of the revolution
To all the soldiers who were dragged into a fruitless war with Iraq between 1980-1988 and were told lies
Please add your list
To Haaji finder,
by Bavafa on Wed May 13, 2009 09:30 AM PDTPerhaps you didn't read what I commented or you need some one to translate it for you. I never claimed, nor insinuated any guilt or lack of it since I don't know the details of her case unlike many on this forum.
Now whether "my" mullah are weak or not weak, that is a whole different argument which I am not going to have it with you, since you don't read so well.
Mehrdad
P.S. Wish you the best in finding your Haaji
Haaji and like defenders of IRI....
by Qui'est (not verified) on Wed May 13, 2009 09:03 AM PDTMohseni Ejei that is claiming that she still is quilty, is a master bast*** of IRI. He is the one who convicted most of the students and likes of Karbaschi during the khatami period. His claims have no value except saying that iranian lives have no value when it comes to protecting interests of IRI leaders.
While we can believe what her lawyer had said that she had copied a document while acting as a translator, that does not consititute being a spy.
Oldtimer: in US journalists are immune to prosecution to a very large extent. How do you think they publish all those reports and books containing non-public material (as in daily NYT). If you are comparing Saberi to US journalists, she would be totally immune under US laws as a journalist. And under IRI laws, who knows since IRI does not have well-codified laws: one can insult a mulla and end up in jail for a long time. They way it works in IRI is that first one is convicted, then a reason is found. If one accusation does not stick, another is found; such as she bought wine, she had no license, and she had a document that she was not supposed to have. And if nothing is found, an accusation that would make it impossible for her to defend herself such as spying. We have seen this movie before many times: zahra kazemi, haleh esfandiari, and likes.
To Haaj Agha "Mehrdad" bavafa to IRI
by Haaji finder (not verified) on Wed May 13, 2009 08:47 AM PDTWell if she wasn't that innocent as you claim, why was she let out after all?
Admit it that it proves how weak and vulnerable your mullahs are to America's pressure and how eaily they can back down and lose face with the whole world.
joe l is right now why was
by notgetit (not verified) on Wed May 13, 2009 08:44 AM PDTjoe l is right
now why was she in posession of docs? who gave her copies?
was she spy or just foolish?
who was that ghobadi guy? did he date her before?
To: Choghok
by Bavafa on Wed May 13, 2009 08:36 AM PDTDon't you wish you had held your comment one more day.
Check out what her lawyer has said today, not that I am insinuating she was spy, but it looks like she wasn't all that innocent either.
Mehrdad
To Haaj Agha "Choghok"
by Haaji finder (not verified) on Wed May 13, 2009 06:32 AM PDTHaaj Agha you gloated and declared so arrogantly earlier that
"If there was a remote chance she was a spy she would not be out."
Now eat "your words" and repent ... lol
//www.pr-inside.com/iran-american-journalist-...
Ruined a revolution???
by AryamehrNYC on Wed May 13, 2009 06:27 AM PDTThey hijacked an entire country based on lies. Not to mention ruining a once prosperous country brimming with so much promise. And for what?? All in the name of "Eslameh Aziz"...
Free at last!
by Concerned-Iranian (not verified) on Tue May 12, 2009 10:48 PM PDTمن آريايی ام. خدای من ايران است. پيامبر من کورش بزرگ است. امامان من داريوش بزرگ ، خشايارشا ، مازيار ، انوشيروان عادل ، يزدگرد . امام زمان من کاوه آهنگر است. روحانيون من فردوسی ، خیام ، مولوی ، حافظ ، سعدی و ابن سينا . کتاب مقدس من شاهنامه است . اصول و فروع دين من لوح حقوق بشر کورش بزرگ است. عاشورای من قادسيه است. شهداي من رستم و بابک خرمدين است. پرچم من درفش کاويانی است. بهشت من آزادی است. عيد من مهرگان و نوروز است. محراب من دل است.. دين من عشق و دانش است. ايمان من خرد است .
Gongratulations to Ms. Saberi, her family and loved ones. Congratulations to all Iranians and people around the world who believe and respect human rights and Freedom.
May God Free all Political prisoners Now!
May God Free Iran and all Iranians from the Evil Now.
Amen.
free Iran
by Iran Dell (not verified) on Tue May 12, 2009 10:13 PM PDTFree Iran from terrorist ideology islam and its occupier brutal regime.
She is lucky she did not get caught in the USA
by Oldtimer (not verified) on Tue May 12, 2009 09:50 PM PDTLet's be honest about this. She was caught posessing a secret, sensitive government document which she had stolen and she had travelled to Israel. Here , in the Land of the Free , if a dual citizen is caught stealing a secret document , and she has travelled to Afganistan, or Iran before, there is no way she would get off as easy as Roxana did.
Harliners don't wanna lose power, were behind the arrest!
by gol-dust on Tue May 12, 2009 07:43 PM PDTThis is what you get when bunch of idiots coming from the mountains to Tehran for the first time get control over the government! It is all about holding on to power and mighty dollar! Hardliners are even worse than Ahmadinejad and Khamenei!
She was being used as a pawn just to convey a message that they are not going to be ready for negotiations! Negotiating with Iran would weaken the Mullahs! As long as they stay in the caves they would have total control over the people.
How they ruined the revolution and the beautiful country! Idiots! DAHANESHONO!
قبلا هم عرض شد
امیر کبیر پشت سفارت انگلیس (not verified)Tue May 12, 2009 07:01 PM PDT
هرکس بر ضد منافع انگلیس در ایران خبر تهیه کند عاقبتش یا در زندان است یا تبعید و غیره.
این خانم هم قربانی همین جنایات انگلیس و ایجاد خفقان در ایران است. حالا آرزوی بنده اینستکه لااقل پس از بازگشت به آمریکا اقلا یکی از همین شبکه ها کارخوبی به او پیشنهاد کنند که بیکاری نکشد.
كاش همه «غير» ايراني تبار بوديم…!
Icia (not verified)Tue May 12, 2009 06:57 PM PDT
ركسانا صابري آزاد شد. خبر آزادي يك زنداني، آن هم از نوع سياسي همواره خبري مسرت بخش بوده و خواهد بود. ركسانا روزنامه نگاري ايراني – آمريكايي است كه از مادري ژاپني برخوردار مي باشد و به جرم جاسوسي به 8 سال زندان محكوم شده بود كه بعد از نامه آقاي رييس جمهور به يكباره از زندان آزاد شد. هر چقدر با خودم كلنجار رفتم نتونستم با اين قضيه كنار بيام. باز هم تكرار مي كنم كه آزادي ركسانا از بهترين اخباري بود كه در اين مدت و در ميان بگير و ببند هاي مختلف به گوش مي رسيد. اما چند نكته:
اگر جرم ركسانا جاسوسي بود و مستوجب 8 سال آب خنك خوردن، پس چگونه در عرض چند روز اين اتهام و حكم سنگين به يگباره از بين مي رود؟ آيا آقاي قاضي محترمي كه حكم اوليه را صادر كرده اند، اينقدر دچار اشتباه فاحشي شده اند؟ فاصله از 8 سال زندان تا آزادي براي اينان چه معني دارد؟ آيا قاضي اوليه دچار اشتباه شده است؟ اگر چنين است چگونه مي توان به آراي صادر شده توسط اين قاضي اعتماد كرد؟ فردي كه مي توانست با حكم خود سرنوشت يك انسان را از اين رو به آن رو كند آيا صلاحيت نشستن بر مسند قضاوت را دارد؟
آيا دستور آقاي احمدي نژاد به قوه قضاييه در اين آزادي تاثيري داشته است؟ اگر قوه قضاييه مستقل هست (كه خودش ادعا مي كند كه هست) پس چگونه با نامه رييس جمهور مهربان به يكباره حكم خود را تغيير مي دهد؟ تغييري از زمين تا آسمان. اگر فردي غير از آقاي احمدي نژاد رييس جمهور بود آيا قوه قضايي اصلا زير بار چنين نامه اي مي رفت؟ كما اينكه در دوره آقاي خاتمي بارها در جواب اين قبيل نامه ها خود را به مستقل بودن مي زد؟
هر چقدر جلوي خودم را مي گيرم نمي توانم از عطوفت آقاي رييس جمهور چيزي نگم. البته اين تنها نمونه نيست. آقاي احمدي نژاد نه تنها در مورد ركسانا كه در مورد ملوانان بريتانيايي هم همين قدر مهربان بود، آنگاه كه اينان را با سلام و صلوات و كيف پر از پسته و زعفران ايراني بدرقه مي كرد. اما نمي دانم چرا ذره اي از اين همه انسان دوستي و عطوفت ايشان براي دانشجويان و روزنامه نگاران و كارگران و معلمان و ديگر افراد ايراني نيست. كاش همه مردم ايران جدا از تابعيت ايراني خود داراي يك تابعيت غير ايراني ديگر هم بودند تا آنان نيز بهره اي از درياي بي كران لطف آقاي رييس جمهور نصيبشان مي شد. كاش همه غير ايراني تبار بوديم …!
منبع : وبلاگ جايي براي ننوشتن
She wore the same color scarf as...
by rosie is roxy is roshan on Tue May 12, 2009 06:54 PM PDTher co-star.
Farah Rusta
by Meehan (not verified) on Tue May 12, 2009 05:31 PM PDTSaberi's release will not serve to pave the way for a closer tie between Obama's administration and the terrorist regime in Iran. As Obama said in his Nowrooz message, the Islamic Republic must first stop terror. Do You really belive that there will be a day when the terrorist regime in Iran stop terrorism and stop torturing , raping, and stoning the Iranians ? I do not believe so. The terrorist Islamic Republic thrives on Islamic International terrorism and killing the opponents of the regime in Iran.
IRI Kangaroo Courts
by Lawyer (not verified) on Tue May 12, 2009 04:26 PM PDTIf Ms. Saberi as a Japanese – Iranian had been convicted of the same crime of spying/treason for IRI in the US federal courts she would have received a mandatory life sentence if the jury did not recommend a death sentence. The appeals proceedings would have taken forever & no hunger strikes of her would have been noticed. The bottom line is that IRI is more worried about its own fate than that of Roxanne!!
She served her purpose dutifully
by Farah Rusta on Tue May 12, 2009 03:50 PM PDTThe whole circus around Saberi, from her arrest, through to her jail sentence, and finally to her release served to pave the way for a closer tie between Obama's administration and the Islamic regime. Well done Ms Saberi. Your job is done. Now everyone is a winner except the people of Iran.
Sadly, Delara Darabi had no strong backing as you had nor was she suspected of being a spy.
FR
shoma ham sedaye yek zan ro
by kofri (not verified) on Tue May 12, 2009 03:41 PM PDTshoma ham sedaye yek zan ro shenidin ke migeh "ahmagh"!!!!!!! fekr konam be yek hamkaresh migeh!!! aman aman
Not to rain on her parade...
by Assal B. (not verified) on Tue May 12, 2009 02:46 PM PDTBut, the relief I feel would have felt much sweeter had she been treated like other political prisoners are; if she had been released with bruises and malnutrition.....her two week hunger strike doesn't really show, does it? I'm sorry, I know it sounds heartless, but as much as I try---I can't feel excited about her release when I know others have suffered a much more terrible fate than hers whose voices will never be heard and whose causes will never be championed for.
This only proves Iranian
by Amir J (not verified) on Tue May 12, 2009 01:55 PM PDTThis only proves Iranian government needs to have a specialized department to prevent this kind of negative propaganda which basically gets uses and misused by ill intentioned media forces that are paid to demonize Iran.
Hossein Derakhshan is still in Prison
by Darius Kadivar on Tue May 12, 2009 01:54 PM PDTI hope the international pressure and mobilization will be efficient in his case as well as others still in Prison too:
//iranian.com/main/news/2009/05/11/blogger-and-aid-worker-still-held-iran
To everybody who insinuate things here and elsewhere about her!
by choghok on Tue May 12, 2009 01:20 PM PDTEat your heart out. If there was a remote chance she was a spy she would not be out.
/Bidar bash ke ma bekhabim
Islamic Mercy???
by Behzadnia (not verified) on Tue May 12, 2009 01:09 PM PDTHow about “Islamic Mercy” for other political prisoners whom nobody even knows their names or their crimes?? What if she was not half American?? Would she then have been treated the same way?? She is now going to turn a celebrity for spending only 4 months in prison with special treatment & will never be asked about other female political prisoners who have been spending and/or will spend years & years for serious political crimes!! such as simply criticizing Khamenie. Go figure.