{"id":234174,"date":"2021-01-30T10:18:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T15:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=234174"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:17:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:17:02","slug":"failed-eu-appeasement-policy-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/blog\/op-ed\/failed-eu-appeasement-policy-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Failed EU Appeasement Policy on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Struan Stevenson<\/strong><\/p>\n

As we await the verdict on 4th<\/sup> February, following the trial in Antwerp of the Iranian diplomat and his three co-conspirators, we have had time to reflect on the history of decades of appeasement by the EU. We now know that the so-called diplomat, Assadollah Assadi<\/a>, is in fact a senior agent of the Iranian regime\u2019s sinister Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). He used the cover of being a diplomat in the Iranian embassy in Vienna to enable him to plan a terrorist bomb attack that would have caused carnage on European soil, potentially killing hundreds of men, women and children, including many prominent European and international politicians.<\/p>\n

Evidence from the Belgian prosecutor showed how Assadi had allegedly brought the professionally assembled 550 gm TATP bomb on a commercial flight to Vienna from Tehran in his diplomatic bag and passed it, together with an envelope containing \u20ac22,000, to two co-conspirators. The court was told that Assadi had instructed them how to prime and detonate the device. A third co-conspirator was posted at the Villepinte rally<\/a> as a lookout. All four now face long terms of imprisonment.<\/p>\n

Assadollah Assadi also faces further terrorist charges in Germany. When he was arrested in Bavaria by German police, they found a notebook<\/a> in his car which contained details of the bomb plot and the money paid to his co-conspirators. It also contained information about 289 visits Assadi had made to different countries, 144 of which were to meetings in Germany, indicating that Assadi was supervising terrorist activities across the EU and Germany was clearly the epicentre of the Iranian regime\u2019s European spy network. It is clear that Assadi was the terrorist chief in the EU and spent his time, under instructions from Tehran, planning bomb outrages and assassinations across Europe.<\/p>\n

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Iran\u2019s Terrorist-Diplomat, Assadollah Assadi, Led a Large Espionage & Terrorism Network in EU<\/div><\/div>
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