Obama vows to get Post reporter freed from Iran
President Obama vowed Friday night that the United States would not rest until a Washington Post reporter imprisoned for nine months in Tehran is freed. In a sober moment at the end of an otherwise lighthearted and jestful speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Obama noted that journalists around the world are unjustly imprisoned for doing their work, including “our own “For nine months, Jason has been in prison for nothing more than writing about the hopes and fears of the Iranian people,” Obama said. He noted that ...
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