{"id":234632,"date":"2021-02-06T11:07:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T16:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=234632"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:13:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:13:11","slug":"iran-broad-support-for-western-policy-shift-after-iranian-terrorists-guilty-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/iran-broad-support-for-western-policy-shift-after-iranian-terrorists-guilty-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Broad Support for Western Policy Shift After Iranian Terrorist\u2019s Guilty Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iranian diplomat-terrorist Aassadolah Assadi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Thursday, lawmakers and foreign policy experts from across Europe and the Americas took part in an online conference<\/a> that was scheduled to coincide with the conclusion of a Belgian court case stemming from a 2018 Iranian terror plot. As expected, the judge in that case issued guilty verdicts for each of the four known participants and handed down the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for the principal defendant, Iran\u2019s diplomat-terrorist Assadollah Assadi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The online conference, which was organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI<\/a>), provided an outlet for widespread praise of that decision. The keynote speaker, NCRI President Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, was the prime target of the terror plot, but she emphasized that the court\u2019s decision represented a promise of justice and triumph for countless parties.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Rajavi described<\/a> the verdict as \u201ca brilliant victory for the people and resistance of Iran and a heavy political and diplomatic defeat for the regime.\u201d Many of the speakers expressed the same sentiment while also focusing on prospects for extending that victory and handing further defeats to a regime whose leadership was seemingly implicated in the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cConviction of the regime\u2019s terrorist diplomat\u2026 represents the conviction of the entire clerical regime,\u201d Mrs. Rajavi said, referencing Assadi\u2019s former position as third counsellor at the regime\u2019s embassy in Vienna. The casefile for the 2018 terror plot established that Assadi used his diplomatic status in order to evade ordinary security screenings and smuggle 500 grams of the high explosive TATP into Europe. There, he handed the bomb off to an Iranian-Belgian couple that was tasked with infiltrating the NCRI\u2019s annual \u201cFree Iran\u201d rally<\/a> that was taking place just outside Paris.<\/p>\n

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