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Analysis: What journalist's release means for Iran, U.S. relations

May. 11, 2009
Iran's Judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi said Monday that journalist Roxana Saberi's sentence was commuted as a gesture of "Islamic mercy" because she expressed regret and cooperated with authorities.
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