How US Journalist Roxana Saberi's image of Iran came crahing in [Video GMA & VOA]
Perhaps Roxana should realize this is not the right time - the Iran of her father's time - is at best suppressed - at worst almost forgotten. It is an Islamic police state. A place which enforces the religious views of the few. And those few - want to enforce their view on the world - under their 'Islamic Revolution'. What can she tell us - that some people in Iran object to this. These people with little power - some of whom sat in prison next to her. Then we will believe her. But Iran is like the child soldier who once played happily in the yard - who is now drugged out of his mind, completely brainwashed and carries a weapon - he is just not the same child any more. Likely the people advocating change in Iran - are doing so within and for a better Islamic system - like the die hard communist supporters in the west - who say if we would only do it this way or that way - it would be better - the Shari'a could work. The west and especially the CIA are often blamed for all the troubles in the Middle East - often with no acknowledgement given to - what those in the Middle East wanted or got from these dealings. If the Islamic world is going to change - and by default western attitudes towards it - it will only come when they look within - a process of self-examination - and self-criticism - all of which - at them moment - are harshly put down. Their problems are not our fault. And no amount of glossing over - or twisting the facts - will undo our view of them.
Roxana got a rude awakening - she landed herself in prison - with people who were the other side of the Iran she had hoped to present to us - the free thinkers, the rights activists - the non-Muslims - the promoters of democratic rights. If she went over there to show us Iran - then she succeeded.
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U.S. journalist Roxana Saberi is back home after an Iranian appeals court this month [May 11th] cut her prison sentence to a suspended two-year term. Saberi had been held in Tehran's Evin prison since January after she was arrested for working in Iran without valid press credentials. She was later accused of spying and convicted in a closed-door trial that her father said lasted less than an hour. Saberi gave a TV interview to VOA [Persian News Network]. Ravi Khanna has the details.
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