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Saberi caught up in Iranian politics

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Saberi in Iran
A file photo taken on June 3, 2004 shows journalist Roxana Saberi filming footage of a ceremony marking the 15th anniversary of the death of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at Khomeini's mausoleum in the southern outskirts of Tehran.
BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images

Iran's president has weighed in on the case of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi. He's asking the general prosecutor in Tehran to make sure she gets a fair appeal of her 8 year prison sentence on spying.

MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with professor William Beeman, the chair of the Anthropology department at the University of Minnesota. He's spent more than 30 years studying Iran.

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Saberi in Iran
A file photo taken on June 3, 2004 shows journalist Roxana Saberi filming footage of a ceremony marking the 15th anniversary of the death of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at Khomeini's mausoleum in the southern outskirts of Tehran.
BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images