{"id":6966,"date":"2017-02-02T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=6966"},"modified":"2017-02-02T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T05:00:11","slug":"ahmadinejad-pictured-with-italians-arrested-for-smuggling-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/6966\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmadinejad pictured with Italians arrested for smuggling arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6967 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/201721152335110574171_The-arrested-Italian-nationals-previously-appeared--300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/201721152335110574171_The-arrested-Italian-nationals-previously-appeared--300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/201721152335110574171_The-arrested-Italian-nationals-previously-appeared-.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/>Al Arabiya, 1 February 2017<\/strong> &#8211; Italian police arrested four people on Tuesday who is suspected of smuggling weapons into Iran and Libya, violating international embargos, Italian media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Three of those who were arrested were Italian nationals, couple Mario Di Leva and Annamaria Fontana, and Andrea Pardi, as well as Libyan national Mohamud Ali Shaswish.<\/p>\n<p>The arrested Italian nationals previously appeared in a picture with the former Iranian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mojahedin.org\/newsen\/27807\" target=\"_blank\"> Mahmoud Ahmadinejad <\/a> who was in office from 2005 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The group was accused of smuggling air ambulances and weapons such as surface-to-air missiles, assault rifles, and anti-tank missiles into Iran and Libya between 2011 and 2015. The air ambulances were converted into military helicopters, Italian daily La Repubblica reported.<\/p>\n<p>It is also believed that the three Italians were also involved in another investigation on arms trafficking and recruitment of mercenaries between Italy and Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>The military equipment was manufactured in the ex-Soviet bloc and shipped from third countries, including Ukraine and Tunisia, the police said told Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Al Arabiya, 1 February 2017 &#8211; Italian police arrested four people on Tuesday who is suspected of smuggling weapons into Iran and Libya, violating international <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/6966\/\" title=\"Ahmadinejad pictured with Italians arrested for smuggling arms\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-terrorism-fundamentalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6968,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions\/6968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}