Did Obama Make A Deal With Iran For Saberi's Release?

From this report at DEBKA, it is being claimed that the Iranian courts didn't just have some moment of clarity when they released American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi...oh no, her release is being reported as part of a "deal" that the Obama administration brokered that saw that Iranian Revolutionary Guard captives in Iraq were released in exchange for Saberi. Hmmm....that almost sounds a bit like negotiating with terrorists, doesn't it? I didn't think America negotiated with terrorists. Here's some of this report:

According to DEBKAfile's Iranian sources, US journalist Roxana Saberi was released Tuesday, May 12, as part of an exchange deal under which Washington agreed to free four senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards intelligence officers captured in Irbil, northern Iraq in January 2007. Defined as "diplomats" by Tehran, they ran terror operations and covert arms supplies from Iran then to al Qaeda and Sunni insurgent networks.
Those sources reveal that the Obama administration will also release to Tehran information on the fate of the Iranian diplomat who disappeared in Pakistan four months ago. US and Pakistani officials claimed at the time that he was kidnapped by the Taliban, tortured and executed, while Tehran insisted he was captured - and is still held - by US special forces because of his ties with al Qaeda.
The four Iranian agents captured in Irbil have not yet been freed, but senior Iranian and Iraqi sources say it will happen soon. The date depends on Tehran satisfying Washington's demand for information on the former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who has never been heard of from the time he disappeared on the Iranian island of Kish in March 2007.

So, if this report is true, it simply says to the world - capture Americans in your country, try them and hold them in your prisons and just wait for the Obama administration to give you what you want in exchange for their release. For crying out loud, what does this potential powderkeg hold for Americans travelling in islamic countries or ever U.S. personnel at embassies across the world?

Would this be surprising? Hell no. We have seen nothing but appeasement from Obama in regards to foreign relations - it took the guy a week to step up to the plate to knock off a few teenage Somali pirates holding a U.S. ship captain. If Barack Obama is willing to give up prisoners who have plotted against the U.S., who have contributed to the death of U.S. troops in exchange for some civilians...then what would this man do, what would this man be willing to give up for Iran's "promise" to stop its nuclear program? It really is scary, isn't it?

Iranian sources: Obama to free four Iranian "diplomats" as swap for US journalist

According to DEBKAfile's Iranian sources, US journalist Roxana Saberi was released Tuesday, May 12, as part of an exchange deal under which Washington agreed to free four senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards intelligence officers captured in Irbil, northern Iraq in January 2007. Defined as "diplomats" by Tehran, they ran terror operations and covert arms supplies from Iran then to al Qaeda and Sunni insurgent networks.
Those sources reveal that the Obama administration will also release to Tehran information on the fate of the Iranian diplomat who disappeared in Pakistan four months ago. US and Pakistani officials claimed at the time that he was kidnapped by the Taliban, tortured and executed, while Tehran insisted he was captured - and is still held - by US special forces because of his ties with al Qaeda.
The four Iranian agents captured in Irbil have not yet been freed, but senior Iranian and Iraqi sources say it will happen soon. The date depends on Tehran satisfying Washington's demand for information on the former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who has never been heard of from the time he disappeared on the Iranian island of Kish in March 2007.
On April 23 this year, Mohammad Hossein Aghasi, the Iranian lawyer the Levinson family hired to trace him said he believes the missing American is alive and held at a secret location in Iran.
Our intelligence sources stress that the Obama administration's willingness for this kind of swap goes partway toward admitting to Tehran's charge that Roxana Saberi performed services in Iran for the United States.
After the Tehran court commuted the eight-year sentence against her for spying to two years suspended, her lawyer revealed that part of the Iranian case against her was that she had a copy of a confidential Iranian report on the US war in Iraq which, he said, she had copied "out of curiosity."