Iran separated Abedini, Sala cases says Tajani

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 8 - Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Wednesday that Tehran had wanted the case of Cecilia Sala, the Italian journalist released by Iran after being arrested there last month, separated from that of Mohammed Adedini Najafabadi.
    Iranian engineer Adedini Najafabadi was detained at a Milan airport under a US warrant on charges of exporting drone parts allegedly used to kill three US servicemen in Jordan a year ago three days before Sala's arrest "The Iranians themselves separated the two (cases)," Tajani told Rai television when asked about the possible impact of the meeting in Florida at the weekend between Premier Giorgia Meloni and US President-elect Donald Trump.
    "In the meantime, let's enjoy the return of Cecilia Sala, a good journalist, to Italy. "I am particularly pleased because I am a personal friend of her father, so, in addition to my duty as a minister, I also put in some affection for her father, who is a friend." Tajani said Sala's release showed that the government's sometimes-criticized approach of working in silence and "under the radar" had paid off.
    "That's how you get positive results, without talking too much, and we succeeded," he said.
    "It was a great team effort of government, the intelligence and diplomatic services, with the direct commitment of the premier, Cabinet Secretary (Alfredo) Mantovano and obviously mine as foreign minister". (ANSA).