Iran will reportedly release 2 jailed Americans

Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stated that two Americans who were arrested on espionage charges would be freed in two days. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad decided to release these two American hikers as a humanitarian gesture but its more likely due to the fact that Ahmadinejad is attending the United Nationals General Assembly. The two American hikers, Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal who graduated from University of California- Berkley, were sentenced, eight years in imprisonment in Iran for allegedly spying and trespassing. Americans feel as if the imprisonment was unjust and a very harsh sentence. There are similar cases to this one; Bauer and Fattal, Americans that were arrested on Iranian grounds (Sarah Shroud, Roxana Saberi). The Americans told reporters that they had made an innocent mistake wandering off the unmarked borderline. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than decided that these two Americans would be freed if they posted bail, “a ransom payment for their freedom.”