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IRAN: Journalist Roxana Saberi discusses election protests with BBC

By Alexandra Zaviswriter 
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The BBC has posted a video clip of an interview conducted Tuesday by ‘Newsnight’s’ Jeremy Paxman with Iranian American journalist Roxana Saberi. In the clip, Saberi discusses her imprisonment in Iran earlier this year and her views about the protests over the country’s disputed presidential election.

‘I know that a lot of Iranians are very angry at the way that these peaceful protesters have been treated, confronted with violence, and it’s not clear yet if the violence will continue, and if it does, will the people be scared into silence or will the opposite happen, will they be more aggravated. But even if they become silent, these ones who are protesting and the ones who are upset now, that doesn’t mean that their emotions or their contempt will just disappear. Instead I think these emotions will remain and they’ll just intensify.’

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-- Alexandra Zavis in Los Angeles

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Alexandra Zavis

Alexandra Zavis is a former writer and editor on the Los Angeles Times’ Foreign Desk who has reported from more than 40 countries. She spent a decade with the Associated Press, covering Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan, among other war-torn places. After joining The Times in 2006, she has served as a Baghdad correspondent and as a California reporter covering poverty and veterans issues. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Arthur Ross Award for distinguished reporting on foreign affairs and was part of teams of reporters awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for foreign correspondence and APME’s International Perspective Award. She is a graduate of Oxford University and City University in London.

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