{"id":233273,"date":"2021-01-17T07:02:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T12:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=233273"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:23:25","slug":"iran-eu-must-not-downplay-threat-of-iranian-terror-plots-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/iran-eu-must-not-downplay-threat-of-iranian-terror-plots-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: EU Must Not Downplay Threat of Iranian Terror Plots, Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When the Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces in 2011, a trove of documents was recovered from his compound which revealed, among other things, details of occasional cooperation between the terrorist organization and the Iranian regime in the preceding years. This flew in the face of the common wisdom among Western policymakers, that the two entities would never cooperate on account of being adherents of two different sects of Islam.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, these findings were largely ignored, and while Al-Qaeda worked to recover from Bin Laden\u2019s death it also pursued a closer and more consistent relationship with the Iranian regime. Four years later, that relationship reached a turning point whereby Iran became the primary base of operations for Al Qaeda\u2019s terrorism. This situation was highlighted on Tuesday by the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a speech.<\/p>\n

The revelation once again demonstrated that for so long the West has taken a soft approach to Iran policy by turning a blind eye to malign activities of the regime. In order to understand that, we need only shift out gaze over to Europe where leading foreign policy officials continue to downplay the threat posed by the Iranian regime even after a group of operatives under the command of a high-ranking diplomat attempted to carry out a bombing just outside of Paris.<\/p>\n

The target of that plot was the coalition of Iranian opposition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, but the NCRI<\/a>\u2019s international rally<\/a> in June 2018 was also attended by a wide range of political dignitaries from Europe, the United States, and all across the world. Fortunately, two would-be bombers were arrested before crossing from Belgium into France, and the diplomat at the head of the plot, Assadollah Assadi<\/a>, was arrested a day later.<\/p>\n

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Iran's diplomat & the largest terror plot in Europe. What was Assadollah Assadi's role<\/div><\/div>
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