Spurning US extradition request, Italy returns Iranian man to Tehran

"Jason Brodsky, the policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran, wrote on Jan. 8 that Italy shouldn’t release Abedini after Sala was freed. “There is zero equivalence between these two cases,” he wrote, adding that Italy shouldn’t “undermine the integrity” of the U.S. and Italian legal systems to “fall for” the Iranian regime’s “extortion racket.” Brodsky wrote on Jan. 12, about Abedini’s release, that Washington “and its allies should be building an architecture internationally to increase the costs for Iran’s regime for hostage-taking and reduce the supply of Western nationals traveling there.”"