- Iran’s envoy helped increase the tapes from Islamabad-Tehran.
- The FBI shows ambassador over Levinson’s disappearance.
- The US is looking for information and offers up to $ 25 million.
Islamabad: Pakistan has defended the Iranian ambassador to Pakistan, Reza Amiri Moghadam, after his admission to the American Federal Bureau of Investigation’s “Most Wanted” list of his alleged involvement in 2007 -the defense of the former FBI agent Robert Levinson.
The Foreign Office’s spokesman Shafqat Ali Khan said in a statement on Wednesday that Ambassador Moghadam is seen with respect in Pakistan and is a duly accredited envoy of a neighboring country.
The statement also recognized the important role of the broadcast in promoting Pakistan-Iran bilateral connections, confirming Islamabad’s obligation to maintain friendly ties with Tehran.
“As far as Pakistan is concerned, Iran ambassador is respected for his role in the promotion of the relationship between Pakistan-Iran,” added the Fo-spokesman. “He is entitled to all the privileges, immunities and respect because of an ambassador, too from a friendly neighboring country.”
The FBI recently placed Moghadam on his most sought -after list, referring to his alleged commitment to the abduction, detention, and the probable death of Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared after traveling to Iran’s Kish Island in 2007.
Levinson has not been seen in public since, and his family believes he died in Iranian custody, based on US intelligence assessments.
According to the FBI, Moghadam – an official in Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security – was among those appointed by the US Ministry of Finance in March 2025 for his alleged role in the incident.
The Bureau has offered a reward of up to $ 5 million, while the US Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ reward for the Justice program has announced an additional $ 20 million to information leading to Levinson’s recovery.
The FBI movement follows increased tension after the 12-day Iran-Israel war and in the midst of renewed diplomatic maneuvers over Iran’s Nuclear Program.
The United States and its European allies have set a de facto-deadline for the August end to reach a new nuclear agreement with Tehran, having no plans to trigger the “snapback” mechanism to reintroduce UN sanctions.
In response to the FBI’s most sought -after list, the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee President Senator Jim Risch said that the FBI “is the leader of keeping Iran responsible for the abduction of Bob Levinson, a devoted father and patriotic American”.
“We will never forget Bob and his family, and we will keep those who are responsible for explaining their crimes,” he said in a post on X.
Washington’s steps come in the wake of the recent 12-day Iran-Israel war that watched the United States bombed the former nuclear places.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the foreign ministers in France, Germany and Britain, during a telephone conversation, have agreed to set the end of August as the de facto deadline to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran.
If no agreement is obtained before that deadline, the three European powers plan to trigger the “Snapback” mechanism, which automatically impresses all the UN Security Council sanctions that were lifted under the Iran Agreement in 2015.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has said Tehran was hoping to participate in discussions with the United States, but he was not in a hurry to talk to Iran – which has refused to hold nuclear conversations if they were conditional on the country giving up his uranium enrichment activities.
