(Reuters) – Iran has summoned the Swiss ambassador to Tehran, who represents U.S. pursuits within the nation, and a senior Italian diplomat over the U.S. arrest of two Iranian nationals this week , Iranian media reported on Saturday.
U.S. prosecutors on Monday charged the 2 males with illegally exporting delicate know-how to Iran that they are saying was utilized in a January drone assault in Jordan that killed three U.S. service members. The USA blamed the assault on Iranian-backed militants. Iran mentioned on the time it was not concerned.
Federal prosecutors in Boston recognized the boys as Mohammad Abedini, co-founder of an Iran-based firm, and Mahdi Sadeghi, an worker of a Massachusetts-based semiconductor producer. Analog units (NASDAQ:).
Abedini, a Swiss and Iranian resident, was arrested in Italy on the request of the U.S. authorities. Sadeghi, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Iranian descent, lives in Natick, Massachusetts.
“We think about these arrests a violation of worldwide regulation,” Iranian media quoted the International Ministry as saying, including that the Swiss ambassador and the Italian cost d’affaires had been requested to convey Iran’s protests .
(dubai.newsroom@thomsonreuters.com; edited by French (BCBA :)Kerry)
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