{"id":230433,"date":"2020-12-01T14:06:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T14:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=230433"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:32:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:32:29","slug":"state-media-assadis-trial-sets-a-dangerous-precedent-for-all-irans-diplomat-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/state-media-assadis-trial-sets-a-dangerous-precedent-for-all-irans-diplomat-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"State-Media: Assadi\u2019s Trial, Sets a Dangerous Precedent for All Iran\u2019s Diplomat-Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Friday marked the first session of Iran\u2019s diplomat-terrorist trial, Assadollah Assadi, and his three accomplices, who tried to bomb the opposition rally in 2018 in Paris. Now the regime\u2019s officials are terrified that Assadi\u2019s trial set a precedent in holding the regime to account for its terrorism in Europe.<\/p>\n

It is the first time that a diplomat on duty is on trial for terrorism<\/a>. Yet, it is not the first time the mullahs\u2019 regime uses its diplomats for terrorism abroad.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of arresting a German diplomat in July 2018, when Germany arrested Assadi, the [regime\u2019s] Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed a lawyer for Assadi, who has diplomatic immunity. This will set a dangerous precedent.\u201d wrote<\/a> Keyhan daily on November 27. Keyhan is known as the mouthpiece of the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, by accepting the arrest of Assadi and appointing a lawyer for him, the Foreign Ministry has confirmed that Mr. Assadi has no diplomatic immunity,\u201d Keyhan added.<\/p>\n

Assadi, on the direct orders of his masters in Tehran, refused to participate in the court on Friday. Assadi and his lawyer have been arguing that Assadi enjoys a diplomatic immunity based on Vienna Convention.<\/p>\n

All the while, the prosecutor of Antwerp on Friday rejected Assadi\u2019s claims of enjoying diplomatic immunity. While submitting the details about Assadi\u2019s arrest in Germany, the prosecutor underlined that Austria, where Assadi\u2019s served as Tehran\u2019s third counselor, can\u2019t object to his arrest because he was apprehended outside of Austria. According to international law, Assadi did not have diplomatic immunity at the time of the arrest.<\/p>\n

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Based on Belgium\u2019s 2002 legislation, even if Assadi had diplomatic immunity, Belgian authorities could have arrested him. By reminding this fact, the prosecutor added that even according to Austrian law, Belgian police could arrest Assadi. Since he was planning to commit mass murder, international law allows authorities to strip Assadi of his diplomatic immunity and arrest him.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor further underlined that Tehran\u2019s order for Assadi not to appear in the court indicates the entire regime was behind the 2018 bombing plot.<\/p>\n

Another evidence revealed during the court session on Friday further confirms the regime\u2019s top officials\u2019 involvement in this bombing plot.<\/p>\n

According to the Belgian authorities, Amir Sadouni, one of Assadi\u2019s accomplices, after he met with Assadi in Luxembourg on June 28, in a conversation with another agent, Negar, on WhatsApp confirmed the involvement of Khamenei himself in this terrorist operation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Assadi] told me that after [the bomb is exploded] he would go see Agha [master, a term used by the regime\u2019s officials and affiliates to address Khamenei] personally,\u201d Sadouni wrote.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI<\/a>) who was the primary target of the 2018 bombing plot, had previously revealed<\/a> the role of Khamenei, and Hassan Rouhani, mullahs\u2019 president, and other top officials of the regime in this terrorist operation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I emphasized during my seven-hour testimony, the Supreme National Security Council, presided over by Hassan Rouhani, made the decision to bomb the Iranian Resistance\u2019s annual gathering at the Villepinte, and the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei approved it. Khamenei, Rouhani, Javad Zarif and the mullahs\u2019 Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi must face justice for decades of crimes and terrorism,\u201d Mrs. Rajavi emphasized in a message simultaneous with Assadi\u2019s trial.<\/p>\n

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The Supreme National Security Council, presided over by Hassan Rouhani made the decision to bomb the Iranian Resistance\u2019s annual gathering at the Villepinte, and the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei approved it.#ShutDownIranTerrorEmbassies<\/a>#Iran<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/wnmKigCX7s<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Lo43txXdXO<\/a><\/p>\n

— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) November 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n