{"id":227753,"date":"2020-10-12T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T11:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=227753"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:40:08","slug":"iranian-diplomat-facing-terror-charges-makes-no-secret-of-expecting-impunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/iranian-diplomat-facing-terror-charges-makes-no-secret-of-expecting-impunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Diplomat, Facing Terror Charges, Makes No Secret of Expecting Impunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_227757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-227757\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Assadollah_Assadi_Iran_Terrorist_12102020\" class=\"size-full wp-image-227757\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Assadollah_Assadi_Iran_Terrorist_12102020.jpg\" alt=\"Assadollah Assadi, the Iran regime's diplomat terrorist\" width=\"1200\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Assadollah_Assadi_Iran_Terrorist_12102020.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Assadollah_Assadi_Iran_Terrorist_12102020-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Assadollah_Assadi_Iran_Terrorist_12102020-1024x533.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Assadollah_Assadi_Iran_Terrorist_12102020-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Assadollah_Assadi_Iran_Terrorist_12102020-696x363.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Assadollah_Assadi_Iran_Terrorist_12102020-1068x556.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Assadollah_Assadi_Iran_Terrorist_12102020-806x420.jpg 806w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-227757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assadollah Assadi, the Iran regime&#8217;s diplomat terrorist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In June 2018, agents of the Iranian regime attempted to carry out a major terrorist attack on European soil. The bomb plot was fortunately thwarted by European authorities, but if it had gone forward it would have almost certainly resulted in hundreds, if not thousands of deaths, including high-profile political figures from the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The unraveling of that plot led to the arrest of an Iranian-Belgian couple who had been tasked with carrying the 500 grams of TATP explosive, as well as a third operative who had previously gained access to the target venue, the international and annual <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/free-iran-gathering-paris-2018\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cFree Iran,\u201d<\/a> gathering of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/about-ncri\/alternative\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)<\/a>. Soon thereafter, the plot\u2019s mastermind \u2013 a high-ranking Iranian diplomat stationed at the regime\u2019s embassy in Vienna \u2013 was detained in Germany and then extradited to Belgium.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, July 3, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_kyhYBQEiw5E\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FkyhYBQEiw5E%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kyhYBQEiw5E\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M32S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-07-03T09:57:46Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_kyhYBQEiw5E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FkyhYBQEiw5E%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, July 3, 2018<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kyhYBQEiw5E\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FkyhYBQEiw5E%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, July 3, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, July 3, 2018 Four Arrested in Alleged Plot to Bomb Anti-Iran Gathering European security services arrested four people, including an Iranian diplomat, for allegedly planning to bomb an annual gathering of Iranian opposition groups outside Paris last Saturday. Asdollah Assadi, Iran\u2019s diplomat in Austria who ordered the terror attack, was arrested in Germany A terrorist diplomat of the clerical regime by the name of Asdollah Assadi, who was the main planner of the terrorist plot against the great gathering of Iranians in Paris, was arrested in Germany. The terrorist diplomat, who is the station chief of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) in Vienna, has been stationed in Austria since August 2014. The two arrested terrorists are Amir Sadoni and Nassim Nomeni and are residents of Antwerp. Rudy Giuliani Issued a Statement on the Iranian Regime Terrorist Plot against FreeIran2018 Rally July 2, 2018 - Following the Belgian law enforcement\u2019s announcement of having discovered a Tehran-backed terrorist ring aiming to target Iranian dissidents during the Free Iran Gathering, which took place in Paris on June 30, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, lawyer to U.S. President Donald Trump, issued a statement, commending Belgian authorities for their efforts and condemning the Iranian regime for its sponsorship of terrorism across the globe. Giuliani was among the participants in the Free Iran Gathering, in which he delivered a speech in support of the Iranian people\u2019s uprising and the NCRI and PMOI\/MEK\u2019s efforts to establish democracy and freedom in Iran. Giuliani also met with Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the NCRI, and has been a long-time supporter of the Iranian Resistance. U.S. Softens Demand That Countries Stop All Iran Oil Imports The Trump administration is softening its earlier demand that countries like China, India and Turkey end all imports of Iranian oil by Nov. 4, as a top State Department official on Monday said the United States would allow reduced oil flows, in certain cases. \u201cWe are prepared to work with countries that are reducing their imports on a case-by-case basis,\u201d said Brian Hook, the department\u2019s director of policy and planning. His announcement was a delicate attempt at reassuring oil markets and allies that sanctions are not likely to hit them this fall \u2014 even if Iranian oil continues to flow around the world, as is likely the case. Protests to Water Salinity Spread To Other Cities Of Khuzestan Province In Iran Khorramshahr citizens came to the streets on Sunday, July 1, 2018, for the third consecutive day in protest to the water salinity crisis in the area. Following the uprisings, people in several other cities of Khuzestan province, including Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni, Abadan, Kut-e Abdollah and Ahvaz, also joined the protests and launched demonstrations. It has been reported that some protesters in the gatherings of Monday, July 2nd, in Ahvaz and Khorramshahr have been arrested. Shooting and Clashes by Iranian Agents with Protesting People Government forces clashed with protesting villagers in Zehuki on Monday afternoon, July 2, 2018, firing at them due to two barrels of gasoline inside a home in the Minab city, Hormozgan province, Iran. On Monday afternoon, government forces see two barrels of gasoline in a house in Zahuki village of Minab city in Hormozgan province and harass and attack the residents of the house. The people of the village came to help their fellow citizens and rushed their defense. However, the security forces, with the command of Iranian officials, immediately shoot at the protesting people with direct gunshots.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/iranian-diplomat-and-three-accomplices-on-trial-for-planned-bombing-of-a-massive-rally-in-paris\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assadollah Assadi<\/a>\u2019s trial is scheduled to begin on November 27. And as his court date approaches, the world continues to learn new details about his actions both before and after he became one of the first Iranian diplomats to be formally implicated in the regime\u2019s terrorist activity. It has come to light, for instance, that Assadi personally obtained the explosives that were to be deployed against the NCRI gathering, then delivered them to his co-conspirators.<\/p>\n<p>These facts have not stopped Tehran from defending him or loudly protesting the Belgian government\u2019s efforts to bring him to justice. The regime\u2019s attempt to interfere in his extradition was a sobering reminder of the extent to which Iranian officials have come to expect impunity from the international community. But it was only in recent days that Assadi\u2019s own conduct revealed just how far the regime is willing to go to assert that impunity.<\/p>\n<p>Transcripts of his conversations with Belgian authorities include apparent threats by the terrorist-diplomat on behalf of various armed groups that operate as proxies for the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). At one point, Assadi identified such groups as being based in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and also Iran itself, and he declared that they would all be \u201cwatching from the sidelines to see if Belgium would support them or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Casual observers might find it quite difficult to understand why Assadi or his allies would expect this sort of support. But Assadi\u2019s threats are due to the longtime appeasement policy that has emboldened a terrorist regime. While the November 27 Assadi\u2019s case will be the first of its kind, it is not as though there haven\u2019t been other opportunities for authorities in Europe to prosecute high-profile contributors to Iranian terrorism. In most cases, however, they have declined, leaving the regime as a whole, even in cases where it has actually killed people on European soil.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For example, in 1990, the NCRI\u2019s representative to the United Nations, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/president-elect\/dr-kazem-rajavis-assassination-to-be-investigated-in-the-context-of-genocide-crime-against-humanity\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kazem Rajavi<\/a>, was gunned down in traffic near his Geneva home. Two of the perpetrators of that crime were later detained in Paris, but rather than hold them pending a Swiss extradition request, French authorities opted to promptly send them back home and avoid the diplomatic tensions that would have inevitably arisen with Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>The assassination of Dr. Rajavi has stayed unpunished for nearly 30 years, even though his killers and their political overseers have been rather definitively identified.<\/p>\n<p>Stories like this one are surely contributors to Assadi\u2019s expectation that he can escape justice for his own contribution to Iranian terrorism. To deter Assadi\u2019s threats, the EU should hold them and his masters in Iran to account for their systematic terrorism. The appeasement policy has created this notion for the mullahs\u2019 terrorists that they can escape justice.<\/p>\n<p>It is vital that the international community disabuse Assadi and his colleagues of this notion, especially now that he\u2019s attempted to pepper blackmail into the case as well. If Tehran doesn\u2019t come away from the current situation with the clear understanding that it can no longer expect impunity for its malign activities, then those activities will continue to accelerate.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, Assadi\u2019s threats, the whole process of this foiled bombing plot and the regime\u2019s efforts to use the appeasement policy for getting Assadi out of prison, confirm the regime\u2019s state-sponsored and systematic terrorism. And the only way to stop this is taking a firm action by not only holding Assadi to account, but prosecute all the regime\u2019s top leaders, who are deeply involved in terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2018, agents of the Iranian regime attempted to carry out a major terrorist attack on European soil. 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