{"id":213522,"date":"2020-02-15T19:42:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T19:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=213522"},"modified":"2023-01-22T11:09:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T10:09:35","slug":"struan-stevenson-irans-foreign-minister-should-be-arrested-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/blog\/struan-stevenson-irans-foreign-minister-should-be-arrested-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Struan Stevenson &#8211; Iran&#8217;s Foreign Minister Should Be Arrested in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_213523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-213523\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mr.-Stevensons-article-on-United-Press-International\" class=\"wp-image-213523 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mr.-Stevensons-article-on-United-Press-International.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Stevenson's article on United Press International (UPI) on the necessity of arresting the Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, for his involvement in terrorism.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mr.-Stevensons-article-on-United-Press-International.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mr.-Stevensons-article-on-United-Press-International-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mr.-Stevensons-article-on-United-Press-International-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mr.-Stevensons-article-on-United-Press-International-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-213523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Stevenson&#8217;s article on United Press International (UPI) on the necessity of arresting the Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, for his involvement in terrorism.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr.\u00a0Struan Stevenson,\u00a0the coordinator of the Campaign for Iran Change\u00a0and\u00a0a former\u00a0president\u00a0of the\u00a0European\u00a0Parliament\u2019s\u00a0Delegation for Relations with Iraq, in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/Voices\/2020\/02\/14\/Irans-foreign-minister-should-be-arrested-in-Europe\/6351581685571\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an article published on United Press International (UPI)<\/a>\u00a0on Friday, called for the arrest of the Iranian regime\u2019s Foreign Minister,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-fundamentalism\/27391-fact-sheet-record-of-mohammad-javad-zarif-foreign-minister-of-iran-s-regime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mohammad\u00a0Javad\u00a0Zarif<\/a>, who participated at the\u00a0annual Much Security Conference.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Stevenson\u00a0said extending an invitation\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-fundamentalism\/27391-fact-sheet-record-of-mohammad-javad-zarif-foreign-minister-of-iran-s-regime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zarif\u00a0<\/a>to address the Munich Security Conference on Friday and Saturday\u00a0was\u00a0\u201ca grave error.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My new article<br \/>Allowing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s FM <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Zarif?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Zarif<\/a> to address <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MunichSecurityConference?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MunichSecurityConference<\/a> is a serious error. As both a holocaust denier &amp; a sponsor of state terrorism, he should be placed on EU terrorist list &amp; arrested in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Europe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Europe<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MEK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MEK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pompeo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pompeo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yFStqqUI7f\">https:\/\/t.co\/yFStqqUI7f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; STRUAN (@STRUANSTEVENSON) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/STRUANSTEVENSON\/status\/1228345916983250945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While referring to Zarif\u2019s direct involvement in terrorism\u00a0and his\u00a0terrorist\u00a0designation by the United States,\u00a0Mr. Stevenson wrote:\u00a0\u201cZarif has been listed as a terrorist by the U.S. State Department. In January, he was banned from entering the United States to attend a United Nations Security Council meeting. Why then, is the European Union still willing to extend the hand of friendship to this listed terrorist?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs foreign minister, Zarif\u00a0is in charge of\u00a0Iran&#8217;s army of ambassadors and diplomatic staff. In June 2018, he was therefore responsible for the orders given to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/terrorism-fundamentalism\/25030-khamenei-rouhani-ordered-bomb-attach-against-free-iran-2018-gathering-in-paris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assadollah\u00a0Assadi<\/a>, a diplomat from the Iranian Embassy in Vienna.\u00a0Assadi\u00a0was allegedly instructed to hand over 500 grams of high explosives and a detonator to an Iranian couple from Antwerp, Belgium,\u201d wrote Mr. Stevenson, referring to the regime\u2019s foiled plot of bombing the annual \u201cFree Iran\u201d gathering held by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/alternative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the National Council of Resistance of Iran\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/alternative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(NCRI)<\/a>\u00a0in Paris, in June 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Khamenei?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Khamenei<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rouhani?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Rouhani<\/a> Ordered Bomb Attach Against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran2018<\/a> Gathering in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paris?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Paris<\/a><br \/>he German Federal Prosecutor announced in its statement on July 11 that German judiciary had ordered the arrest of Assadollah Assadi, a mullahs\u2019 terrorist diplomat, on&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OdkiAAcIEx\">https:\/\/t.co\/OdkiAAcIEx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R6eFZqGQQi\">pic.twitter.com\/R6eFZqGQQi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1017411393971150849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe allegedly ordered them to drive to Paris and detonate the bomb at a major rally organized by the National Council for Resistance in Iran and attended by over 100,000 people. A combined operation by the German, French and Belgian intelligence services led to the arrest of\u00a0Assadi\u00a0and the other conspirators, all of whom are now in prison in Belgium, awaiting trial on charges of terrorism,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was well known that Rudy Giuliani and other high-ranking international political leaders would be attending and speaking at this rally. So Zarif must clearly have planned the terrorist attack with Mahmoud\u00a0Alavi, Iran&#8217;s minister of intelligence, and Reza\u00a0Amiri\u00a0Moghaddam, head of the Ministry of Intelligence &amp; Security&#8217;s Foreign Intelligence and Movements Organization,\u201d wrote Mr. Stevenson, referring to Zarif\u2019s direct involvement in\u00a0the 2018\u00a0thwarted terrorist plot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZarif had even arranged to fly to Vienna the day following the proposed bombing outrage, presumably to congratulate\u00a0Assadi\u00a0personally and to spread the usual lies and propaganda, no doubt blaming the Mojahedin e-Khalq\/People&#8217;s Mojahedin of Iran, the main opposition to the mullahs, for planning the attack on their own supporters so that they could point the finger of blame at the Iranian regime,\u201d said Mr. Stevenson.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the Zarif\u2019s lies about this terrorist plot and his\u00a0disgusting campaign of whitewashing regime\u2019s terrorism and brutality,\u00a0Mr. Stevenson wrote: \u201cBut Zarif&#8217;s plan backfired horribly, leaving him lamely trying to claim that the arrest of his diplomat and other trained Iranian agents was a\u00a0\u2019false flag operation\u2019\u00a0designed to deceive, by enemies of Iran. It will be interesting to see what the Belgian courts make of this ludicrous claim.<\/p>\n<p>In his article on Friday, Mr. Stevenson\u00a0revealed that\u00a0\u201cZarif had clearly instructed his new team of\u00a0\u2018diplomats\u2019\u00a0in Albania that their main mandate was to track down and eliminate the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MEK\/PMOI<\/a>, who had created a new compound in the country housing over 2,500 of their members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the regime\u2019s diplomat terrorist in Albania who\u00a0was in charge of\u00a0regime\u2019s terrorist plots against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK)<\/a>, Mustafa\u00a0Roodaki,\u00a0Mr. Stevenson wrote\u00a0that\u00a0Roodaki\u00a0\u201chad previously been the head of the Iranian regime&#8217;s intelligence station in Austria and had been coordinating activities against the MEK\/PMOI across the whole of Europe.\u00a0Roodaki\u00a0had been redeployed to Albania by Zarif, with the rank of the first secretary in the Iranian Embassy in Tirana. He was joined there by a new ambassador appointed by Zarif,\u00a0Gholam\u00a0Hossein\u00a0Mohammadinia, a former high-ranking Iranian intelligence official who had also been a member of the Iranian nuclear negotiating team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut once again Zarif&#8217;s plans were thwarted. Albanian intelligence officers uncovered a plot to detonate a bomb at a Nowruz (Iranian New Year) gathering of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MEK\/PMOI<\/a>\u00a0members in Tirana. Two MOIS agents, together with\u00a0Mohammadinia\u00a0and his first secretary,\u00a0Roodaki, were expelled from the country by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama,\u201d wrote Mr. Stevenson, referring to the regime\u2019s\u00a0foiled plot of bombing the MEK\u2019s gathering in March 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PolandSummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PolandSummit<\/a> When Mullah\u2019s Regime <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Terrorist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Terrorist<\/a> bomb attacks against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran<\/a> gatherings in France &amp;in Albania Failed&amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> rgm&#39;s diplomat <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Terrorist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Terrorist<\/a> got arrested, MOIS Agents &amp;lobbies resorted to spread <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Fakenews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Fakenews<\/a> to demonize <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MEK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MEK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fzgojV5ROi\">https:\/\/t.co\/fzgojV5ROi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USAdarFarsi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@USAdarFarsi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1087017590411669505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this catalog of assassinations and bomb plots involving Iranian diplomatic personnel under the leadership and guidance of Foreign Minister\u00a0Javad\u00a0Zarif, it is not surprising that the United States has decided to label him as a terrorist. Yet the West continues to believe that his mastery of English and his benign smile mean that he must be a trustworthy moderate with whom we can negotiate. Giving this person a platform in Munich was a big mistake, particularly because Zarif, like Khamenei, is a Holocaust denier,\u201d wrote Mr. Stevenson, highlighting the Iranian regime\u2019s authorities, including\u00a0Javad\u00a0Zarif\u2019s denial of the\u00a0Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a reference to the West, Iran&#8217;s supreme leader said in a speech on Feb. 7, 2006, which was posted on his English language website:\u00a0\u2018The freedom of expression which they claim to advocate does not allow them to raise doubts about the myth of the massacre of the Jews known as the Holocaust.\u2019\u00a0When Zarif was asked by ABC News,\u00a0\u2018Do you endorse or reject the ayatollah&#8217;s belief that the Holocaust is a myth?\u2019\u00a0he replied: &#8220;I have spoken to him about this. He was mistranslated. This is the problem when you translate something from Persian to English, it gets lost in translation.\u2019<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fact Sheet: Record of Mohammad Javad <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Zarif?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Zarif<\/a>, Foreign Minister of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s Regime  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WIgDJ3KXud\">https:\/\/t.co\/WIgDJ3KXud<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IRGCTerrorists?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IRGCTerrorists<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1228448647291035649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAddressing students at Columbia University in 2006, Zarif was asked by a student:\u00a0\u2018Do you personally believe that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust?\u2019\u00a0Zarif responded:\u00a0\u2018The question that needs to be asked is what is the crime committed by the Palestinians in these atrocities.\u2019\u00a0When the students cried out in anger at his failure to answer, he lamely fell back on the supreme leader&#8217;s issue of\u00a0\u2018freedom of expression,\u2019\u00a0stating:\u00a0\u2018I&#8217;m answering. If you want to cipher the right to freedom of expression, then that&#8217;s your problem, not mine,\u2019\u201d read the article.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllowing Zarif to address the security conference in Munich, during the year which marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, was a serious error. Zarif, as both a Holocaust denier and a sponsor of state terrorism, should be placed on the EU terrorism blacklist and arrested next time he sets foot in Europe,\u201d Mr. Stevenson concluded.<\/p>\n<p><i>Struan Stevenson is the coordinator of the Campaign for Iran Change. He was a member of the European Parliament representing Scotland (1999-2014), president of the Parliament&#8217;s Delegation for Relations with Iraq (2009-14) and chairman of the Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup (2004-14). 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