The US had asked Italy to arrest and extradite the Iranian national for allegedly transferring drone technology.

Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi was held in Milan after accusations he had supplied drone technology to Iran's military.

Iran announced on Sunday that a national held in Italy will return "in the ... the US authorities arrested another man, Iranian-American Mahdi Sadeghi, whom it said colluded with Abedini to ...

A plane carrying Cecilia Sala, 29, landed at Rome’s Ciampino airport, where Premier Giorgia Meloni was on hand to welcome her ...

ROME — Italy on Sunday released an Iranian citizen wanted by the ... was detained while on a reporting trip to Iran. Sala, who was believed held as a bargaining chip for Abedini’s release ...

The request to revoke the man’s arrest came only days after Iran released an Italian journalist. Iranian state news said the ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Barry Rosen, one of the 52 Americans held in Iran during the hostage crisis from 1979 to 1981, on President Jimmy Carter's quest to bring about their safe release.

A Swiss national detained in Iran on ... three American soldiers. Three days later, an Italian reporter for the Il Foglio daily paper, Cecilia Sala, was arrested in Tehran. Iranian authorities ...

"Now the 25 journalists still held in Iranian prisons must also be released," the group said in a social media post. In September 2023, five Americans detained for years in Iran were freed in ...