Roxana Saberi, the American-Iranian
journalists arrested by the Iranian government on charges of espionage last February was finally released, despite having already been convicted by judicial authorities for an 8 year imprisonment term.
Previous heavy pronouncements of the Iranian government on the Saberi case had given little hope for her eventual release that various media organizations and international organization, such as Amnesty International had launched intense campaign to press for her release.
And her release yesterday came out as a great surprise, even a pleasant one, despite the graveness of the situation.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton comes to the forefront of worldwide media as this would refer to her as a very clever negotiator, now that one of the most ardent adversarial state to America has caved in to pressure.
Many sees this move by Iran—- accused for a long time by US for harboring and developing nuclear weapons, as well as for having patent caustic threat against Israel—- as a path towards more amiable relations with America, while many downplays its significance at all.
In my case, I see this as a softening of Iran’s often harsh stand against the west, especially America. And perhaps this might be connected to the upcoming presidential elections in Tehran come June 12, where the administration of President Mahmoud Ahmajinehad would be challenged by a number of tenable candidates, some can actually give him a run for the money.
But in the bottomline of it all, this is a very significant diplomatic move from Iran, in a very positive way, and I hope this would lead further to the eventual minimization of nuclear tension that has got Iran so involved, like in the eye of the storm.
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