{"id":230017,"date":"2020-11-21T12:10:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T12:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=230017"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:33:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:33:29","slug":"details-of-iranian-terrorist-plot-evoke-much-shock-little-surprise-from-potential-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/details-of-iranian-terrorist-plot-evoke-much-shock-little-surprise-from-potential-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Details of Iranian Terrorist Plot Evoke Much Shock, Little Surprise From Potential Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On November 27, four individuals will go on trial in Antwerp over a terrorist plot that was thwarted in June 2018. One of the defendants and the alleged mastermind of the plot is a high-ranking Iranian diplomat named Assadollah Assadi<\/a>, who was employed as a third counsellor at Iran\u2019s embassy in Vienna prior to his arrest. The trial is expected to present evidence showing that Assadi not only recruited and directed the other operatives but also provided them with the explosives that were meant to be used in bombing the Free Iran rally<\/a> that was taking place in the Paris suburb of Villepinte on June 30, 2018.<\/p>\n

For many observers, the involvement of Iranian diplomatic personnel is sufficient on its own to demonstrate that the terror plot was an official state operation, undertaken with the full knowledge and approval of high-ranking officials like the regime\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. This has apparently been corroborated by Belgian investigators, as evidenced by a recent statement from the head of state security which stated that \u201cthe plan for the attack was conceived in the name of Iran and under its leadership. It was not a matter of Assadi\u2019s personal initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n

This exact conclusion had been anticipated by various persons who provided affidavits to the Belgian investigators, either because of their expertise on Iranian affairs or because of their presence at the target venue. \u201cBased on my knowledge of the involvement of the regime in terrorism and on available information, in this case, it is clear to me that the planned attack was not an isolated act by a rogue element within the Iranian government,\u201d said<\/a> scholar and US ambassador Robert Joseph.<\/p>\n

Similarly, former US Senator Robert Torricelli declared in his affidavit<\/a>, \u201cThere is no doubt that the terrorist plot was decided and planned at the highest level of the Iranian regime. This is a case of state terrorism, where diplomatic privileges have been used to facilitate a terrorist act on European soil.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both these men had been in attendance at the 2018 Free Iran rally, and both used their affidavits to affirm their support of the coalition that organized it, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI<\/a>). For these and other witnesses in the case, the terror plot was just one of the latest signs of anxiety within the Iranian regime about the possibility of that coalition gaining a stronger foothold in Iranian society and threatening to overturn the existing theocratic system in favor of a genuine democracy.<\/p>\n

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Free Iran 2018 Gathering - 30 June 2018 - Villepinte, Paris<\/div><\/div>
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