A high-placed Iranian embassy official has been ordered to spend 20 years in prison for his part in planning the bombing of a march organised by an Iranian resistance group in France in 2018
BRUSSELS, Belgium — A high-placed Iranian embassy official has been ordered to spend 20 years in prison for his part in planning the bombing of a march organised by an Iranian resistance group in France in 2018. Assadollah Assadi was sentenced by a court in Belgium on Thursday. On July 1, 2018, German police arrested Assadi, a diplomat working at the Iranian embassy in Vienna, in a joint operation between police, the judiciary and security services from Germany, France, and Belgium. Investigations revealed that as a senior Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) agent, Assadi had plotted an attack on the annual gathering of Iran’s organised opposition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Villepinte, Paris, attended by 100,000 people — according to a letter forwarded to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) last week, signed by forty Members of the assembly, including 5 members of the Irish delegation to the Assembly, headed by Senator Fiona O’Loughlin.
