Just in case the Tehran regime began to look like a patsy for tough love, the Twelvers have arrested and tried and now condemned a totally innocent and crusading journalist who is also a guaranteed video heroine as a former Miss North Dakota. Her father is an Iranian-American, her mother is a Japanese American, and Roxana was born in New Jersey. You cannot make this stuff up. Spying? The Twelvers demonstrate a creepy, medieval opinion of all women, especially forthright Brenda Starr sorts. The initial charge was buying a bottle of wine. In case it wasn't obvious after all the nuke fuel provocations, these Twelvers are both smart and sick. Roxana Saberi, who has been at the sadistic Ervin Prison in Tehran since January, can expect to serve at least half of her eight year sentence. This will not be an easy card for the Obama team to ignore in the pursuit of "no preconditions." Tortured, mutilated, murdered and discarded? Unlikely, but not impossible, if you recall the case of another journalist held at Ervin Prison, the Canadian Zahra "Ziba" Kazemi-Ahmadabadi (left), who was destroyed by the Twelvers in 2003. StateSec HRC has already spoken out in a manner that suggests Roxana Saberi is one headline from becoming a major international incident. (Late breaking: Twelver faceman Ahmadinejad (the man is everywhere; he never sleeps) boasts that he has written a letter to the judge in the Saberi case. Something musical about her rights being respected. The game is afoot.) (Also: Best Tehran source reports that the Saberi family is less than clear-eyed. They have come down with the Stockholm Syndrome. This will prove useful in time.)


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