This quote from Bloomberg News today and in the Google news also:
"Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahrudi, head of the judiciary,

issued the order today in a statement cited by the state-run Iranian

Students News Agency. The appeal must be heard “fairly and

quickly,” he was quoted as saying."[end quote].
This is really good news for all Iranians and for all reporters!And

really for the whole world. Reporters serve a very necessary duty
and there are so many reporters/journalists/photo-journalists who
have taken that duty to the utmost committment and risked their

lives to report on events in different places. Any nation that seeks to

please GOD, because liberty is of GOD HIMSELF who made humans

in HIS own image;and must allow news reports from it to the world

and also must allow anyone charged with a crime that has a penalty

of prison to prepare a defense for the self and present evidence to

defend self and to question the accusers. That is common sense

because people see events very differently even when they witness

the exact same event. And think about this, because insurance

companies and their actuarial records attest to this, people have a

'natural' bias they develop over time and therefore different

opinions of the exact same event are often reported. In some cases

they could be both be true. An example of that is a mother with

small child witnessing an vehicle accident that happened as she

was driving probably would rush to the scene and look for small

children to rescue. A single man on the other hand might not think

might not see it that way at all and instead would look at the

damage to the car instead of the people in it. And yet both scenes as

reported were true but if you ask the one he would tell you about

damage to the car, and if you asked the other she would tell you that

small children were trapped inside and she rescued them and could

not even give you a description of the car because she was panicked

for the children. Yet  both records of the events  in that situation

would be true, and  hearing both of them helps reconstruct what

happened. My point is, that news reporters often do the same

thing--report on events that they witnessed from their perspective

that they have developed over their life times and their perspective

on events is valid and offers needed insight into the situation at

hand.
  Therefore when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad intervened

yesterday for the Iranian-American journalist tried for spying it

was a very good thing for him,[his political career] and for his

nation and also for reporters around the world. When a

reporter/journalist is sent on a mission or goes willingly because

she has a heart for the people of Iran,  to report events it is good for

the world to read those reports, and it is good for America to see

Iran through the eyes of an Iranian-American born in America but

living first hand in Iran. And it is also good for Iran to read those

reports as well because that Iranian-American reporter will have a

totally different perspective than an Iranian born there who never

lived abroad and who has no insight into what it is like to live in

America.
  I am absolute believer in the concept of freedom of press and

religious, political speech for all nations. I am glad President

Ahmadinejad of Iran intervened and I am also glad that Ayatollah

Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahrudi, head of the judiciary, responded to

that request from Iran's President and also I believe it is a huge leap

forward for the entire nation of Iran on the world 'playing field.' I

think Iran's President won a lot of respect and the right to be heard

himself by other leaders by insisting on a fair system of justice

including the right to defend oneself in a court of law.
  Also while I am writing on this subject, I read the news about the

same Iranian President complaining of 'Islamaphobia' in meetings

of other leaders today. I am reminded that whether it is labeled

anti-semitism [against Jews] or 'Islamophobia' [against Muslims] it

is from the same enemy of GOD that hates anyone who praises GOD.

It is not because of their skin color or national origin but because of

their beliefs in ONE LIVING GOD  opposed to the worlds' many false

gods that sticks in the craw of those who fight against Muslim or

Jewish faith. It has the same origin and believe me, Christians also

experience discrimination, even in America. JESUS said it happens

when HE said if they hate ME they will also hate you if you love ME

and that is sort of a summary of those events. I think Iran and all

Muslim nations and all Jewish countries need to quit fighting each

other and fight the enemies of GOD--those who bow down to statues

and pray to things made with human hands or to dead people. It

seems to me that anti-semitism and Islamaphobia are two sides to

the same coin--motivated by the same enemy of GOD [satan] and

accomplished in much the same way. When the Jews and the Arabs

realize they have GOD in common, and a common ancestor then

maybe they will commit to peaceful relationships and homes for all.
  The Bloomberg article written by Thomas Penny and Henry Meyer 

is located at:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aTo.H3

OY_28s&refer=canada/ and with a very good photo of President of

Iran  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
11:48 AM 4/20/2009