Meloni talks about how the Italian journalist was freed

At a triumphant press conference in which reported very little on how the release of the Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was managed and the difficult problem of the arrest of the Iranian engineer Mohamed Abedini in Milandue to a US extradition request to Italy, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni limited herself to saying this Thursday that There was “diplomatic triangulation with the United States and Iran to unblock the situation.”

In Italy it was lived this Wednesday a day of national joy when it was learned that Cecilia Sala, 29, had been released and was returning to Rome. At the press conference, Meloni said that he lived one of the greatest satisfactions of your life when he called Sala’s mother and told her that her daughter had been released and was returning to the country.

Most of the secret negotiations in which The efforts of the intelligence services were key have not been revealed. But it is known that even Pope Francis himself intervened and met with the Iranian ambassador to the Holy See, Mohammad Hussein Mokhatari in search of a solution to the Sala case.

Cecilia was twenty days in a prison in Tehranwhere she was for interviews, to use her as a hostage in exchange for the Iranian engineer arrested in Milan.

On the one hand, it consolidated the close conservative alliance of the North American president who will take office on Monday the 20th and the personal relationship between both. On the other hand, it allowed Meloni to have Trump’s understanding to settle the case of the Iranian engineer Abedini, avoiding a clash between the US and Italy due to a possible rejection of extradition.

Beyond the words, the facts showed that Trump also seemed flexible both to avoid a diplomatic disaster with close Italian allies, and to deal indirectly with Iran through the intelligence networks that the United States uses. keeps active.

Everything apparently worked and Trump believes that his presidency is also consolidated with the conservative European governments and with others.

It is still a mystery to know How an agreement has been reached with the case of the imprisoned Iranian engineerwhich allowed Sala’s release. But it seems true that there will be no extradition and that the engineer accused of terrorism by the Americans, will leave Italy for Switzerland (he is also a Swiss citizen) or Iran.