“Cecilia Sala returns home”, rejoiced the daily newspaper which employs it, The Sheet, late morning, Wednesday January 8. A few hours earlier, the 29-year-old journalist had been released from Iran’s Evin prison in Tehran and boarded a plane bound for Rome. Cecilia Sala had been detained there since her arrest on December 19, officially for violating the laws of the Islamic Republic.
Unofficially, everything suggested that she had been arrested to serve as a bargaining chip to obtain the release of an Iranian national detained in Italy.
“At the beginning of January, the Iranian regime [avait] explained that Sala’s situation was linked to that of Mohammed Abedini Najafabadi, arrested on December 16 at Malpensa airport, Italy, at the request of the United States, for trafficking in war technologies. reminds He Post. American authorities have also requested the extradition to the United States of this 38-year-old drone engineer.
Trip to Mar-a-Lago
It is in this context that the Italian Prime Minister visited the United States on Saturday January 4. A visit of only a few hours, during which she was able to speak with the president
