Roxana Saberi On Trial: Verdict In a Couple Weeks

Scary to the say the least, Saberi was just taken a couple of months ago and now her trial by a revolutionary court is almost done. These are the same courts that hung three Iranians the other day for allegedly blowing up a mosque. I am unsure if its connected to the Saberi case but those three were also accused of American connections.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian-American journalist has gone on trial in Iran for spying for the United States and a verdict is expected soon, the judiciary said on Tuesday.

Washington says the charges against Roxana Saberi, who has reported for the BBC, National Public Radio and other media, are baseless and has demanded her immediate release.

"The first trial meeting on Roxana Saberi was held yesterday ... I think the verdict will be announced soon, perhaps in the next two or three weeks," judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi told a news conference.

Under Iran's penal code, espionage can carry the death penalty. Iran last year executed an Iranian businessman convicted of spying on the military for Israel.

Saberi, 31, is a citizen of both the United States and Iran, but Tehran does not recognize dual nationality. Last week, Iranian media said Saberi had been charged with espionage on behalf of the United States.

As for the three:

Tehran, 10 April (AKI) - Iran executed three people on Friday, two of them University students, convicted of being involved in the bombing of a mosque in the southern city of Shiraz which killed 14 people and injured 200 others in April 2008.

Mohsen Eslamian, 21, Ali Asghar Pashtar, 20, and Rouzbeh Yahyazadeh, 32 had been charged on November 2008 as 'mohareb' or God's enemy, by a revolutionary court in the capital Tehran, said Iranian state news agency IRNA.

The court had accused the defendants of having links to a monarchist opposition group outside Iran and of taking orders from an Iranian US-based CIA agent to try to assassinate a top official in Iran.

The authorities also accused the group of seeking to overthrow the Islamic regime in Iran and blamed the United States for arming and training those behind the blast and said Israel and Britain were also involved.

The three men were hanged in the city's Adelabad prison.