Roxana Saberi Hospitalized Briefly

From the Associated Press:

The American journalist on a hunger strike for two weeks to protest her imprisonment in Iran was briefly hospitalized after she intensified her fast by refusing to drink water, Reporters Without Borders said Monday.

The press freedom group said 32-year-old Roxana Saberi was taken Friday to a clinic at Tehran's Evin prison, where she has been held since her arrest in January. She was released from the clinic within a day after again drinking water, the group said.

...Reporters Without Borders said her father Reza Saberi told the group over the weekend that she stopped drinking water after Iranian authorities denied she was on a hunger strike.

"So following that, she decided to do a complete hunger strike," Soazig Dollet of the Paris-based group told The Associated Press. "So she was really weak and went to the clinic inside the prison for the day, but not more than a day."

Iranian authorites lied and denied that Saberi was on a hunger strike, so Saberi responded by refusing water. And her ordeal drags on.

Considering Obama is so eager to talk to Iran, without preconditions, I don't know why he doesn't get Ahmadinejad on the phone and discuss the consequences of Iran holding an American hostage. What's Hillary doing?

Perhaps it's because the Obama administration has no plan for Iran to suffer any significant consequences due to Saberi's imprisonment.

Shadows of the impotent, incompetent Jimmy Carter hang over this.

Obama's willing to let Saberi sit in an Iranian prison. There's no sense of urgency. Crisis? What crisis? Besides, he has so much else on his plate right now. Give him a break.

Obama can't let the plight of a political prisoner get in the way of his date night.