{"id":231128,"date":"2020-12-14T15:22:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T15:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=231128"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:30:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:30:07","slug":"what-should-the-eus-policy-toward-iran-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/what-should-the-eus-policy-toward-iran-be\/","title":{"rendered":"What Should the EU\u2019s Policy Toward Iran Be?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iranian diplomat terrorist Assadollah Assadi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the past two weeks, two significant developments happened in Europe, either directly or indirectly, concerning Iran. First was the trial of Iran\u2019s incarcerated diplomat terrorist Assadollah Assadi and his three other accomplices in Belgium. Secondly, the European Union adopted a global human rights sanctions regime. Now, what should the EU\u2019s policy towards Iran be after these two developments?<\/p>\n

Assadi\u2019s trial<\/h3>\n

November 27 and December 3 marked the historic trial of the Iranian regime\u2019s diplomat terrorist Assadi<\/a> and his three accomplices, Nasimeh Naami, Amir Sadouni, and Mehrdad Arefani. Under Assadi\u2019s command and at the behest of the regime, the terrorist cell attempted to bomb the Iranian Resistance\u2019s annual \u201cFree Iran\u201d gathering<\/a> in Paris on June 30, 2018. All four were arrested in the midst of their operation. Naami and her husband Sadouni were arrested in Belgium while having 500 grams of TATP explosives and a detonator in their possession.<\/p>\n

Assadi had previously used his diplomatic passport to transfer the explosives from Iran to Austria, where he worked as the third secretary of the regime\u2019s embassy. On June 28, Assadi handed the bomb to Naami and Sadouni in Luxembourg.<\/p>\n

During Assadi\u2019s trial in Antwerp, Belgium, the prosecutors underlined that Assadi was acting on Tehran\u2019s direct orders. All the evidence proved Assadi to be an official of the regime\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). In fact, following Assadi\u2019s arrest, the EU imposed sanctions on him and MOIS\u2019s Section 312.<\/p>\n

Sadouni, Naami, and Arefani all held Belgian nationality and previously lived in Belgium as political refugees. But all three were collecting information about the Iranian Resistance for the regime and were on the MOIS payroll. Belgian authorities found nearly 240,000 euros in Naami and Sadouni\u2019s account and house, and around 100,000 euros in Arefani\u2019s account.<\/p>\n

The trial<\/a> showed how the regime had used its diplomatic privileges and the EU\u2019s policy of appeasement to pursue its terrorism in Europe.<\/p>\n

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Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi faces terrorism trial in Belgium court<\/div><\/div>
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