Former Ambassador to Jordan to Face US Arms Deal Charges April 20, 2007 The Northern Echo/ thenorthernecho.co.uk A judge has ruled that a former Iranian diplomat living in the North-East should be extradited to the US to face charges of trying to buy military equipment for his homeland. Nosratollah Tajik, 53, of Coxhoe, County Durham, who was an honorary fellow at Durham University, has been accused of being the British link in a £1.5m international arms-smuggling ring spanning the US, Holland and Turkey. Mr Tajik, who was Iran's ambassador to Jordan between 1999 and 2003, was arrested last autumn after...