The British court has given former Iranian envoy Nosratollah Tajik time, until June 11, to seek medical aid before extraditing him to US. Iran's former ambassador to Jordan, Nosratollah Tajik, who suffers from heart disease, is currently under police custody.
Tajik, arrested in November 2006, was accused of trying to purchase night vision goggles for Iran from US mediators. According to British media reports, undercover FBI agents who were acting as international military equipment dealers offered to sell Tajik night vision goggles valued over £50,000 while secretly filming him. Tajik and his lawyers argue that the US agents planned to incriminate him from the beginning, as they were not following a legitimate lead.
Tajik, a citizen of Coxhoe, Durham County, who completed his diplomatic mission in 2003, retired to England, with his family, to finish a PhD course, joining the Durham University as an honorary lecturer. In April 2008, the British High Court upheld a former ruling that Tajik should be sent to the US to face charges, forcing his legal team to launch an appeal. |