TEHRAN (AFP) - A lawyer for US-born reporter Roxana Saberi, freed this week from a Tehran jail, said on Wednesday the spy charges she had faced arose after she obtained a classified report on the US war on Iraq. She had a report about the US attack on Iraq prepared by the strategic research centre at the (Iranian) presidency, Saleh Nikbakht told AFP. The research centre deemed the report as classified. But she had not used it at all. Nikbakht did not say how Saberi had managed to gain access to the confidential report. Saberis other lawyer, Abdolsamad Khoramshahi, said the journalist received a suspended two-year jail term from the appeal court the stipulated punishment for such a crime. She was accused of accessing secret documents. If these are used, there is a 10-year jail term, if not, then two years, he said. Irans intelligence minister said on Wednesday that Saberi was guilty. The verdict shows that she has not been acquitted, she was put on trial and it was established that she had committed an offence, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie was quoted as saying by the state broadcaster. According to international law and treaties to which Iran is a member, hostile nations are those who are at war or have been at war and are in a state of ceasefire without signing a peace treaty, Nikbakht wrote in the reformist newspaper Etemad Melli on Wednesday. He said Iran approved this definition in 2003 and announced that it was not in a state of hostilities with any country, except with Iraq during the regime of Saddam Hussein. Saberis original eight-year jail term had caused deep concern in Washington and among human rights groups. The sentence was the harshest ever meted out to a dual national on security charges in Iran, and came just weeks after US President Barack Obama proposed dialogue with Tehran after three decades of severed ties.