US journalist happy to be free after four months in Iranian jail

AMERICAN journalist Roxana Saberi said she was happy to be free and thanked those who helped win her release after four months in an Iranian prison.

US journalist happy to be free after four months in Iranian jail

One of Saberi’s lawyers said she was originally convicted in part because she had visited Israel and because she kept a confidential Iranian government document about the US war in Iraq, which she obtained while working as a freelance web translator for a powerful body connected to Iran’s ruling clerics.

Speaking to reporters in Tehran for the first time since her release on Monday, Saberi said she did not have any specific plans but wanted to spend time with her family.

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