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Voice of America reported that "The Obama administration said Thursday it has set no deadline for its diplomatic outreach to Iran to show results, but that U.S. patience on the issue of Tehran's nuclear program is not infinite.... At a news briefing, State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly insisted however that there is no fixed timetable. 'We're not setting any deadline. And we're not interested in setting any kind of specific or even notional time-line," said Kelly. We are of course monitoring very closely what the Iranians are doing, assessing progress. But we don't have any time-line. We're not going to let this string out forever of course, but we don't have any timetable on it.'" (http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-05-14-voa61.cfm)

Reuters reported that "A U.S. judge has sentenced an aviation company owner to 17 months in prison for conspiring to ship parts for fighter jets and other military aircraft to Iran in violation of the U.S. embargo, according to court papers. Hassan Saied Keshari, an Iranian national and naturalized American, was charged last June with a series of violations of the U.S. Arms Export Control Act, the Iran embargo and the International Emergency Powers Act. He pleaded guilty in January to one count of conspiracy. U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz dismissed 10 other charges at a hearing on Wednesday and sentenced him to 17 months in jail on the conspiracy count, with three years of probation after his release. He had faced up to 20 years in prison on the original charges." (http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN14320544)

AFP reported that "US-born reporter Roxana Saberi flew into Vienna from Tehran on Friday, only days after her release from an Iranian prison where she had been jailed on allegations of spying for the United States.... Although she did not provide any details on her travel plans, her arrival in the Austrian capital follows comments by her father that he planned to take her to the United States. There are no direct flights between Iran and the US." (http://www.france24.com/en/20090515-saberi-iran-vienna-arrives-freed-rep...)

In an editorial, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said that "Americans should be pleased by Iran's release Monday of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi.... Iran's decision on Ms. Saberi should push the other way, and it makes sense for the United States to stay cool until after Iran's elections." (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09135/970242-192.stm?cmpid=newspanel5)