In response to the continued detention of an Iranian citizen in Italy, Ms. Paola Amadei, the Italian ambassador to Tehran, was summoned on Friday by the Iranian Overseas Ministry.
In the course of the assembly, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Director Basic for Western Europe on the Overseas Ministry, described the arrest of Iranian citizen Mohammad Abedini as an unlawful act carried out on the request of the U.S. authorities.
The Iranian official acknowledged that Abedini’s detention displays Washington’s ongoing political and hostile strategy of concentrating on Iranian residents worldwide via the extraterritorial utility of U.S. home legal guidelines.
Nili emphasised that the detention not solely undermines the long-standing relations between Iran and Italy but additionally violates worldwide authorized ideas, together with human rights requirements, and constitutes a type of arbitrary detention.
He urged Italy to reject the U.S. coverage of hostage-taking and known as on Rome to take quick steps to safe Mr. Abedini’s launch, thereby stopping any hurt to bilateral relations brought on by exterior pressures.
In response, the Italian ambassador assured that she would convey Iran’s protest and considerations to her nation’s Overseas Ministry in Rome.
