Identifier
Created
Classification
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09CANBERRA565
2009-06-16 07:20:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Canberra
Cable title:
AUSTRALIA ASKS IRANIAN MINISTRIES ABOUT AMCIT
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UNCLAS CANBERRA 000565
SIPDIS
NEA/IR ERICA THIBAULT, NEA, S/SAGSWA, AND P
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: IR AS JA PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER CASC
SUBJECT: AUSTRALIA ASKS IRANIAN MINISTRIES ABOUT AMCIT
ROBERT LEVINSON
REF: STATE 49083
UNCLAS CANBERRA 000565
SIPDIS
NEA/IR ERICA THIBAULT, NEA, S/SAGSWA, AND P
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: IR AS JA PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER CASC
SUBJECT: AUSTRALIA ASKS IRANIAN MINISTRIES ABOUT AMCIT
ROBERT LEVINSON
REF: STATE 49083
1. (SBU) In reply to the Charge's letter of thanks, reftel,
to Foreign Minister Smith for Australia's help in the release
of AMCIT Roxana Saberi, Smith's Chief of Staff, Frances
Adamson, wrote on June 9: Start text
Thank you for your letter dated 15 May 2009 thanking the
Government for its assistance in relation to Ms Roxana
Saberi. Mr Smith has asked me to reply to you on his behalf.
The Australian Government was pleased to be able offer
assistance in the case of Ms Saberi. The decision of the
Iranian Revolutionary Court to reduce her sentence and to
allow her to leave Iran was no doubt an enormous relief to Ms
Saberi and her family.
In relation to the other two cases you mention, Australia's
former Ambassador to Iran, Mr Greg Moriarty, raised the case
of Mr Levinson with relevant Iranian ministries. Iranian
officials advised they had no information relating to Mr
Levinson's whereabouts.
The Government will continue to take appropriate
opportunities to raise Mr Levinson's case, as well as the
case of Ms Momeni, with the Government of Iran. End text.
CLUNE
SIPDIS
NEA/IR ERICA THIBAULT, NEA, S/SAGSWA, AND P
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: IR AS JA PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER CASC
SUBJECT: AUSTRALIA ASKS IRANIAN MINISTRIES ABOUT AMCIT
ROBERT LEVINSON
REF: STATE 49083
1. (SBU) In reply to the Charge's letter of thanks, reftel,
to Foreign Minister Smith for Australia's help in the release
of AMCIT Roxana Saberi, Smith's Chief of Staff, Frances
Adamson, wrote on June 9: Start text
Thank you for your letter dated 15 May 2009 thanking the
Government for its assistance in relation to Ms Roxana
Saberi. Mr Smith has asked me to reply to you on his behalf.
The Australian Government was pleased to be able offer
assistance in the case of Ms Saberi. The decision of the
Iranian Revolutionary Court to reduce her sentence and to
allow her to leave Iran was no doubt an enormous relief to Ms
Saberi and her family.
In relation to the other two cases you mention, Australia's
former Ambassador to Iran, Mr Greg Moriarty, raised the case
of Mr Levinson with relevant Iranian ministries. Iranian
officials advised they had no information relating to Mr
Levinson's whereabouts.
The Government will continue to take appropriate
opportunities to raise Mr Levinson's case, as well as the
case of Ms Momeni, with the Government of Iran. End text.
CLUNE