Just another reminder of why I continue to be skeptical every time there’s a story that breaks about some innocent American in a foreign country being unjustly snatched up by that particular evil government.
A lawyer for Roxana Saberi, the American journalist who was convicted of espionage last month in Iran, disclosed new details about her case Wednesday, telling NPR that the Iranian prosecutor in the case had claimed Saberi was actively recruited by a CIA agent.[...]
"She said that yes, she had met a Mr. Peterson," Nikbakht told NPR, "and that Mr. Peterson asked her to work for the CIA. But she took it as a joke, and didn't take him seriously."
Yeah, those crazy CIA agents – always joking around about getting people to work for them.
It appears that in an earlier interrogation, Saberi had been questioned about this Mr. Peterson and had given answers that she then recanted during the appeals procedure. She told the appeals court, according to Nikbakht, that "what she said about Peterson earlier had been a lie."[...]
In the end, the appeals court dismissed all the charges and claims against her, with the sole exception of the document from the Expediency Council that she kept.
I think she is one very lucky woman to be getting released instead of serving that 8-year sentence originally imposed. And it happened all quite quickly. There’s a story there, too, but we’ll probably never hear it.
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