Robert LevinsonThat election is this June in Iran, pitting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the Religious Neanderthal Republic of Iran, against Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a "reformist" who would moderate some of the nation's hard-line policies on human rights and in international diplomacy. That is, he'd steer it a few degrees left of the Stone Age.The lives of three people with American ties are pawns in this election. Roxana Saberi is a Fargo, N.D., journalist with dual citizenship, who was snatche
Robert LevinsonFor the Levinson family of Coral Springs, it's an auspicious sign: Today's release by the Iranian government of Roxana Saberi, the journalist imprisoned there on charges of spying, suggests that the Iranian regime can be reasoned with.We wrote last month about how the June presidential election in Iran might have implications for the three Westerners who were imprisoned or -- in the case of Robert Levinson -- simply disappeared during visits to that country. A former FBI age
Flickr User: .faramarzI hope the people behind the April 27 Free Speech Summit in Boca Raton were watching this weekend's protests in Tehran. Being free with speech in that Iranian city means risking a police baton to the chops, or worse. These were Muslims -- thousands upon thousands of them -- bravely opposing a hard-line fundamentalist regime, despite their "Supreme Leader" having declared the presidential election to be fair and blessed by God. If all the followers of Islam are extremists wh
