U.S. reporter Roxana Saberi released from prison in Iran

Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi was released on Monday from Tehran's Evin jail after a court cut her eight-year prison sentence to a suspended term, her lawyer said, citing her father.

The 32-year-old dual Iranian-American citizen, was convicted last month of spying for the U.S. and sentenced to eight years in prison. An appeals court reduced her jail term on Monday to a two-year suspended sentence.

Her lawyer, Abdolsamad Khorramshahi, said that she was released and is now out of jail.

Earlier Monday, Saberi's father, said he would make plans to return home with his daughter in the next few days. Saberi parents live in Fargo, North Dakota and had traveled to Iran to seek her release.

U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan stressed that Saberi's jailing was a miscarriage of justice that could not stand the test of public opinion.

"They [Iranian officials] surely must have felt the weight of international pressure," the North Dakota Democrat said.