Calls for reporter's release

President Obama denied that an Iranian-American journalist was a spy and demanded her release, after she was sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage.  Reporter Roxana Saberi was convicted by an Iranian revolutionary court of spying for the United States during a closed-door trial. "The changing rationales for her arrest and the one-day secret trial seriously call into question the validity of the charges against Ms. Saberi and the fairness of her trial," said Trita Parsi of the Ploughshares-funded National Iranian-American Council.  "Iranian-Americans specifically seem to have become targets of the Iranian government in recent years," Parsi added.