A U.S. government agency is demanding that Iran release seven Baha'i prisoners rather than submit them to trials on charges of spying for Israel and religious charges. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is responding to a plea from Roxana Saberi, an ...

American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi called Wednesday for the release of a former cellmate — a U.S. aid agency worker held in an Iranian prison — and expressed worry about those detained during opposition protests in Tehran. Saberi, jailed in Iran on spying charges and released last month ...

Iranian-American reporter Roxana Saberi, who was jailed for 100 days on spying charges in Iran earlier this year, said she was "disturbed and distressed" at the post-election crackdown in the country. "I'm very disturbed and distressed by what I've seen in Iran in the past 10 days. That peaceful demonstrators have been confronted to violence and force, I ...