{"id":40851,"date":"2025-01-12T16:19:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T21:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/italian-justice-ministry-moves-to-release-iranian-man-sought-by-the-u-s\/12\/01\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T16:19:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T21:19:40","slug":"italian-justice-ministry-moves-to-release-iranian-man-sought-by-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/italian-justice-ministry-moves-to-release-iranian-man-sought-by-the-u-s\/12\/01\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Justice Ministry Moves to Release Iranian Man Sought by the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Italy\u2019s justice minister has requested the revocation of the arrest of an Iranian man sought by the United States for allegedly providing material used in an attack that killed three American soldiers, the Italian government announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi, 38, was arrested last month in Milan and the U.S. Justice Department had asked for his extradition. He was charged with illegally providing material used in a drone attack by an Iranian-backed militia on an American military base in Jordan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Sunday evening, IRNA, Iran\u2019s state news agency, reported that Mr. Abedini had reached Tehran. Despite repeated requests for confirmation, Italy has not yet announced that it freed the man or that he left the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Italian ministry\u2019s request, which was filed to a court, came only days after <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/08\/world\/europe\/italy-iran-cecilia-sala-journalist-released.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Iran freed an Italian reporter,<\/a> Cecilia Sala, who had been arrested in Iran three days after Mr. Abedini was detained. She was arrested on accusations of violating the laws of the Islamic Republic, though the Iranian government never provided details.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While the Italian government never confirmed any connection between the two cases, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said last week that Ms. Sala\u2019s release was the result of a diplomatic \u201ctriangulation\u201d with the United States and Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Sunday, the Italian Justice Ministry said it had not had the grounds to extradite Mr. Abedini. A U.S. Justice Department spokesman declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">IRNA, citing the judiciary\u2019s media center, reported on Sunday that Mr. Abedini\u2019s arrest had been a misunderstanding that was resolved with diplomacy between Iran and Italy and cooperation between Iran\u2019s and Italy\u2019s intelligence services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Sunday\u2019s government statement, Italy\u2019s Justice Ministry said that according to the extradition treaty between Italy and the United States, a person could be extradited only for crimes that are punished in both countries. Mr. Abedini\u2019s case, they said, did not fit the criteria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of the crimes that he is accused of \u2014 conspiring to export sophisticated electronic components in violation of U.S. export control and sanctions laws \u2014 is not punished in Italy, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Italy\u2019s Justice Ministry also said that it had not received evidence to justify another accusation leveled against Mr. Abedini: that he provided material support to a foreign terrorist organization. The Justice Ministry said that it knew only that Mr. Abedini produced and traded technologies with Iran that had potential, but not exclusive, military use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Leily Nikounazar<!-- --> contributed reporting from Brussels, and <!-- -->Devlin Barrett<!-- --> from Washington.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/12\/world\/europe\/italy-iran-us-abedini.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&rsquo;s justice minister has requested the revocation of the arrest of an Iranian man sought by the United States for allegedly providing<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/italian-justice-ministry-moves-to-release-iranian-man-sought-by-the-u-s\/12\/01\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}