The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday released “seeking-information” posters for three senior Iranian intelligence officers—Reza Amiri Moghadam, Taghi Daneshvar and Gholamhossein Mohammadnia—and placed them on its Most Wanted list for their alleged roles in the 2007 abduction of retired FBI Special Agent Robert Levinson from Iran’s Kish Island. Amiri Moghadam, currently Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan and a former head of operations at the Ministry of Intelligence and Security, is the highest-profile figure named. Daneshvar is described as a counter-espionage specialist at MOIS, while Mohammadnia served as Iran’s ambassador to Albania until his 2018 expulsion on national-security grounds. According to the FBI, the three helped organize Levinson’s kidnapping and later sought to deflect blame, and the agency now believes Levinson died in captivity. The FBI offered up to $5 million for information leading to the men, supplementing a separate State Department Rewards for Justice offer of as much as $20 million. The trio were already sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in March over the same allegations. Islamabad responded on Wednesday by stressing that Ambassador Amiri Moghadam enjoys diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention, signaling that any U.S. request for arrest or extradition would face legal and diplomatic hurdles.
Pakistan says Iranian Ambassador Reza Amiri Moghadam enjoys diplomatic immunity after the Federal Bureau of Investigation added him to its most-wanted list over his alleged role in the 2007 abduction of a retired US special agent. https://t.co/IPWns3I6ZK
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