North Dakota Politicos Meet with State Department Over Detained Journo in Iran

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By: Members of North Dakota's congressional delegation say they have met with the State Department about a journalist being detained in Iran.

Iranian officials have said Fargo native Roxana Saberi is being held in prison on a court order. They have said she was engaged in "illegal" activities because she continued working after the government revoked her press credentials in 2006.

Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan and Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., say the State Department is working with Swiss government officials who represent U.S. interests to find out more details and to make sure the 31-year-old Saberi has an attorney.

Saberi's parents have said they had had no word from her since Feb. 10.

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