March 6, 2009 10:06AM 

# Update on Roxana Saberi 

By [Justin Logan](https://www.cato.org/people/justin-logan) 

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My father sends along [this story](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090306/ts_nm/us_iran_usa_saberi_2) regarding [Roxana Saberi](https://www.cato.org/2009/03/05/what-is-the-iranian-government-doing-the-continuing-puzzle/), the American freelance journalist who has been detained by the Iranian government for more than a month. It is encouraging news.

Our hope and prayers are that the Iranians deliver on this pledge. Better still would be if they simply stopped doing this sort of thing altogether.

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