Jerusalem – Israel’s Supreme Court on Saturday ruled that a national charged with selling US defence equipment to Iran can be extradited to the United States, the justice ministry said.
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It said in a statement that Arye Eliyahu “Eli” Cohen should be rendered to US authorities “in order to stand trial for the commission of federal offences of trading military spare parts with Iran”.
“According to the charge sheet on which the extradition request is based, during the years 2000-2004 Cohen exported military spare parts from the United States to his place of residence in Israel,” the Hebrew-language statement said.
It said that he and three accomplices in the United States shipped parts for Hawk missiles, fighter aircraft and armoured troop carriers from the US to Israel, using false declarations as to the materials and their final destination.
A transcript of Sunday’s court hearing said that the charges alleged that between 2012-2013 Cohen “on two occasions re-exported from Israel to Iran, via Greece, US-made military spare parts used by fighter planes”.
The charges were filed in the Federal District Court of Connecticut in 2013, and the United States made an extradition request the following year.
The Jerusalem District Court granted the request but Cohen then appealed to the Supreme Court.
“The act for which extradition is requested constitutes a criminal offence under the laws of both” Israel and the United States, the court said in Sunday’s ruling.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused arch-foe Iran of “preparing another Holocaust” and seeking to acquire nuclear arms with which to attack the Jewish state.
Go getim boys
What’s the h—- is wrong with people. Like the old saying goes the bed you make is the bed u sleep in
They should rot in jail.
What a big חילול ה
Sounds like an Iran-Contra scandal replay to me when the Israeli state acted as an agent for the USA to sell to Iran
So these guys are being extradited, but Israel won’t allow the perverts Malka Leiter & Mondrowitz, not to mention the hundreds of others whom we don’t know about, to stand trial? For money & guns, yes. For innocent children who are scarred for life….. who gives a damn about them? Certainly not the Israeli government. Netanyahu, for this alone I will actively campaign against you & Likud come the next election.
What is the problem here? The boys were simply earning an honest living trading, instead of going from door to door asking for tzedaka. Is Obama going to be arraigned for sending $400 million in cash to Iran?
Why doesn’t Israel extradite Col. Aviem Sella, who was Jonathan’s Pollard’s primary handler? The coward Sella fled like a dog from the USA to Israel, after Pollard was arrested, in 1985. If Israel had extradite Sella, and had admitted its culpability sooner (as well as returned hundreds of classified documents), Pollard, would have been released twenty years ago. Today, Pollard is still being punished, for Sella’s role in that sordid affair. Yes, Pollard broke the law, but he was essentially the fall guy, in a scandal that has been covered up to this day.