… Would you understand if the Iranians water boarded Roxana Saberi?
Reporting from Cairo and Tehran — An Iranian American journalist accused of spying for the U.S. was sentenced Saturday by an Iranian court to eight years in prison, a move likely to put a chill on the Obama administration’s efforts to improve relations with Tehran. Roxana Saberi, 31, who had reported for the BBC and National Public Radio, faced espionage charges during a trial Monday before Iran’s Revolutionary Court.
Such slippery slopes.
I think this is tragic situation, and I’m in no way making light of it. I’m trying to show how we, as a country, have lost the moral high ground when it comes to torture.