Italy releases Iranian citizen held on US warrant over drone attack in Jordan

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..... Italy releases Iranian citizen held on US warrant over drone attack in Jordan
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Dated:- 12-1-2025
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Rome, Jan 12 (AP) Italy on Sunday released an Iranian citizen wanted by the US over a drone attack in Jordan that killed three Americans a year ago, after the Italian justice minister asked a court to revoke his arrest. Mohammad Abedini has already returned to Iran, Iranian s .....

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..... tate TV said on Sunday afternoon. He was scheduled to appear at a Milan court on Wednesday in connection with his bid for house arrest pending extradition to the US. Abedini was arrested on a US warrant on December 16, three days before Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was detained while on a reporting trip to Iran. Sala, who was believed held as a bargaining chip for Abedini's release, retur .....

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..... ned home last week. The US Justice Department has accused Abedini of supplying the drone technology to Iran that was used in a January 2024 attack on a US outpost in Jordan that killed three American troops. An official note on the case released by the Italian Justice Ministry on Sunday said that under Italy-US extradition treaties, “only crimes that are punishable according to the laws of bot .....

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..... h sides can lead to extradition, a condition which, based on the state of documents, can't be considered as existing.” The ministry said that the potential charge against Abedini — criminal association for violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a US federal law — “did not correspond to any conduct recognised by Italian law as a crime.” Iranian state TV said the release and .....

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..... return of Abedini came after Iran's foreign ministry pursued the case, as well as “talks” between Iran's intelligence ministry and the Italian intelligence service. Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni described a “diplomatic triangulation” with Iran and the United States as being key to securing Sala's release, confirming for the first time that Washington's interests entered into the negotiations. .....

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..... Sala's release came after Meloni made a surprise trip to Florida to meet US President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate. (AP) GRS GRS
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