Obama Meets With Freed Cal Grad Hiker
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has met at the White House with Sarah Shourd, the hiker recently freed by Iran, and with her mother and the mothers of the other two American hikers still being held.
The White House says Obama told them his administration will continue to do everything it can to secure the release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal.
They've been held in Iran for more than a year.
The White House says the president wanted to personally welcome Sarah Shourd home. But Obama told the visitors Thursday the occasion "remains bittersweet" because Bauer and Fattal are still being held in Iran.
A White House statement says the U.S. "remains hopeful that Iran will demonstrate renewed compassion" and release the two Americans.
Shourd, Bauer and Fattal met at and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and Shourd's mother lives in Oakland.
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