{"id":329,"date":"2009-05-11T10:34:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T14:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=329"},"modified":"2009-05-11T16:16:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T20:16:15","slug":"iran-frees-american-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/05\/11\/iran-frees-american-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Frees American Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/images\/faculty_zelnick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a former long-time ABC News foreign correspondent, College of Communication journalism Professor <a title=\"Robert Zelnick\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/robert_zelnick.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Zelnick <\/a>can offer unique perspective on the decision by the Iranian government to free American journalist Roxana Saberi.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The freeing of Roxana Saberi, a courageous journalist whose three months imprisonment rightly triggered international outrage, shows that even Iran cannot be completely tone deaf to world opinion.\u00a0 But I would be cautious before reading into this event a new Iranian responsiveness to President Obama&#8217;s personal diplomacy or a willingness to yield in its effort to develop nuclear weapons.\u00a0 One happy ending does not validate a foreign policy steeped in myth.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Robert Zelnick, 617-353-5007, <a href=\"mailto:bzelnick@bu.edu\">bzelnick@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a former long-time ABC News foreign correspondent, College of Communication journalism Professor Robert Zelnick can offer unique perspective on the decision by the Iranian government to free American journalist Roxana Saberi. &#8220;The freeing of Roxana Saberi, a courageous journalist whose three months imprisonment rightly triggered international outrage, shows that even Iran cannot be completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[919,922,920],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}