In its attempts to extradite Iranians accused of illegally seeking arms and military equipment, the White House is dealt several setbacks ...

Newsweek, here

"...In Thailand last month, authorities released from custody a high-ranking Iranian Air Force officer who had been caught in a sting mounted by U.S. Homeland Security and Defense Department investigators, who alleged that he was trying to buy missile-guidance devices. The release of the Iranian, Jamshid Ghassemi, was ordered by Thai courts, after the Iranian government argued to Thailand's government, that Ghassemi was the victim of American entrapment and that he would be tortured for confidential information about the Iranian military, if extradited to the United States.

In Britain, U.S. authorities have been having trouble finalizing the extradition to America of Nosratollah Tajik, a former Iranian ambassador to Jordan who was ensnared in a separate Homeland Security operation. During the course of this inquiry, Tajik allegedly sought to illegally export American-made night-vision devices to Iran.

In yet a third case, as NEWSWEEK first reported China last spring released an accused Iranian smuggler after he had been caught in another Homeland Security sting allegedly trying to buy American fighter-jet parts for shipment to Iran. The accused smuggler, Yousef Boushvash, had been at first detained by Chinese authorities in Hong Kong following the bust. But when the United States sought his extradition, Beijing officials ordered authorities to let him go, and Boushvash vanished..."