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Diane and her guests discuss the release of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi. She had been sentenced in Iran to eight years in prison following her conviction last month on espionage charges.
Karim Sadjadpour, Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Robin Wright, Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her most recent book is "Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East."
Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; also author of Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution
Stephen Rademaker, former assistant secretary of state, 2002-06; he oversaw the Bureau of Arms Control, then the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, and directed nonproliferation policy toward Iran and North Korea
The author of a new novel about a brainy twelve-year old with a passion for map-making explains why he decided to present it with words on the page and diagrams in the margins.
Reif Larsen, writer, filmmaker
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