North Dakota Tougher on Iran Then Obama: Saberi Preparing Hunger Strike

While Obama has his "We are the change we believe in" video as foreign policy, the North Dakota legislature is pushing for her Saberi's release.


What else has Iran done lately:

A short list
A crackdown and murder of a blogger.
Roxana Saberi being detained.
An ongoing crackdown on the internet and the death of one in jail.
An Iranian drone shot down in Iraq just the other day.
An Iranian nuclear program that can only exist for weapons.
We still have Robert Levinson missing.
In addition Iran has killed hundreds of us soldiers in Iraq.

Bismarck, N.D. (AP) A Fargo journalist in prison in Iran is getting attention from the North Dakota Legislature.

The state House and Senate have approved a resolution to support efforts to gain the release of Roxana Saberi. She has been held for almost two months in a Tehran prison.

Iranian authorities say Saberi continued working in Iran after press credentials were revoked.Saberi grew up in Fargo and worked at a television station there. She is a freelance journalist and has worked for National Public Radio and the British Broadcasting Corp.

Fargo Sen. Tim Flakoll (FLAH'-koll) says Saberi's dream was to be a foreign correspondent, but the dream has become a nightmare.

Stay Strong!

KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 24 (Reuters) - The father of a Iranian-American journalist imprisoned in Iran said on Tuesday that his daughter had become suicidal and threatened to mount a hunger strike as her confinement drags on.

Reza Saberi told Reuters he spoke to 31-year-old freelance journalist Roxana Saberi by telephone early Tuesday morning.

"I am very worried. She is pretty suicidal," said the elder Saberi, who lives in Fargo, North Dakota. "She is saying she will go on a hunger strike if they keep her there. I tried to calm her down. I told her we are doing everything and to just hold on. Don't give in. We will try to secure her release."

Roxana Saberi has been jailed since Jan. 31 and was being held at Tehran's Evin prison.