U.S. journalist released from Iranian jail
An Iranian appeals court altered the charges and reduced the sentence of an American journalist jailed for five months in Iran on spy charges. She was free to leave Iran but barred from working as a reporter in Iran for five years. –DB Washington Post May 12, 2009 By Thomas Erdbrink and Kay Armin Serjoie An Iranian appeals court freed American journalist Roxana Saberi on Monday, three weeks after the 32-year-old former beauty queen was