{"id":234707,"date":"2021-02-08T10:41:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T15:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=234707"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:12:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:12:59","slug":"terrorists-guilty-verdict-creates-opportunities-for-broader-pressure-on-iranian-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/terrorists-guilty-verdict-creates-opportunities-for-broader-pressure-on-iranian-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorist\u2019s Guilty Verdict Creates Opportunities for Broader Pressure on Iranian Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iran-terrorism-pressure-08022021\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-234710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Iran-terrorism-pressure-08022021.jpg\" alt=\"Iran-terrorism-pressure-08022021\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Iran-terrorism-pressure-08022021.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Iran-terrorism-pressure-08022021-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Iran-terrorism-pressure-08022021-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Iran-terrorism-pressure-08022021-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Iran-terrorism-pressure-08022021-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/1358171559559655428\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> posted to Twitter, the Iranian Resistance\u2019s president-elect, Mrs. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/biography\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryam Rajavi<\/a> welcomed news of a guilty verdict in a Belgian court case of Iran\u2019s diplomat-terrorist by saying, \u201cConviction of the regime\u2019s terrorist diplomat\u2026 represents the conviction of the entire clerical regime.\u201d The verdict in question was for the former third counsellor at the Iranian regime\u2019s embassy in Vienna, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/guilty-verdict-for-iran-regimes-terrorist-isnt-enough-to-eliminate-threats-to-europe\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Assadollah Assadi<\/a>, and it served to confirm that he was the mastermind of a 2018 terrorist bomb plot targeting Resistance activists on Western soil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Assadi\u2019s casefile established that he had personally smuggled explosives into Europe while traveling on a diplomatic passport and then met with two co-conspirators in order to provide them with the weapon and accompany instructions. Those would-be bombers, Nasimeh Naami and Amir Saadouni, were captured while attempting to carry the bomb from Belgium to the target venue, a convention center in the Paris suburb of Villepinte. A third individual, Mehrdad Arefani, infiltrated that space separately and was arrested by French authorities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Maryam Rajavi: Conviction of mullahs&rsquo; diplomat\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_AWwGYL8jh_w\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FAWwGYL8jh_w%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AWwGYL8jh_w\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT27M20S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-02-04T21:16:10Z\" \/><\/div><meta itemprop=\"accessibilityFeature\" content=\"captions\" \/><div id=\"lyte_AWwGYL8jh_w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FAWwGYL8jh_w%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Maryam Rajavi: Conviction of mullahs\u2019 diplomat<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AWwGYL8jh_w\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FAWwGYL8jh_w%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Maryam Rajavi: Conviction of mullahs&rsquo; diplomat\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"The Court of Antwerp announced its ruling on Assadollah Assadi, the terrorist diplomat of the clerical regime, and three agents of the regime\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence on Thursday, February 4, 2021. The court\u2019s verdict followed 2.5 years of investigations into the regime\u2019s foiled terrorist plot to bomb the Free Iran Grand Gathering in Villepinte, Paris in June 2018. Simultaneous with the announcement of this verdict, a virtual global conference connected PMOI members at Ashraf 3 with international dignitaries, private plaintiffs in the case, and supporters of the Iranian Resistance gathering outside the Court of Antwerp and in other countries around the world. In her remarks to the conference, Maryam Rajavi said the conviction of the clerical regime\u2019s terrorist diplomat confirms the regime\u2019s state-sponsored terrorism.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Following a two-and-a-half-year investigation, the four participants in the bomb plot went on trial together in November. Prosecutors sought to maximum sentence of 20 years for Assadi and slightly lesser sentences for his co-conspirators. On Thursday, the judge complied with those recommendations, giving 18 years to Naami, 17 years to Arefani, and 15 years to Saadoumi, as well as stripping all three of their Belgian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The outcome of the case was roundly praised by those who had been at risk of harm from the plot. These included Mrs. Rajavi and tens of thousands of Iranian expatriates who had traveled to Paris in 2018 for the annual <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/paris-free-iran-with-hundreds-of-top-personalities-lawmakers-and-elected-representatives-from-five-continents\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Iran rally<\/a>. But it also included numerous policymakers, scholars, military officers, and security professionals from throughout the world who had also participated in the event to show support for the platform of regime change and democratic governance espoused by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/about-ncri\/alternative\/\" rel=\"noopener\">NCRI<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A number of those political dignitaries had submitted affidavits to the Belgian court as civil parties in the case against Assadi. In so doing, they sought to emphasize both the potential scope of the attack and the fact that it was part of a much larger pattern of behavior by the Iranian regime and its representatives in the Western world. The proceedings highlighted this latter point by presenting evidence that Assadi\u2019s diplomatic status had aided him in cultivating a network of assets and prospective operatives that extended far beyond the three individuals who attempted to help him carry out the 2018 bomb plot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"What you should know about Iran&amp;#039;s network of terrorists and spies in EU\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_guJCIqrfsoc\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FguJCIqrfsoc%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/guJCIqrfsoc\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M34S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-02-03T15:00:31Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_guJCIqrfsoc\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FguJCIqrfsoc%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">What you should know about Iran&#039;s network of terrorists and spies in EU<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/guJCIqrfsoc\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FguJCIqrfsoc%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"What you should know about Iran&amp;#039;s network of terrorists and spies in EU\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"February 2021-In 2018, Iran FM Zarif ordered his diplomat-terrorist Assadollah Assadi to bomb the Iranian opposition\u2019s annual gathering in Paris. Assadi used 3 of his terrorists\/spies in Europe. But the plot was foiled by authorities in Germany, France, and Belgium.24 Assadi and his 3 terrorists\/spies were arrested. German Police found two notebooks in Assadi\u2019s car. The red notebook contained coded instructions for operating the bomb.41 Another 200-page green booklet contained 289 notes. Including cash receipts and payment of the huge amounts of cash to many agents across Europe &amp; addresses related to 11 EU countries. 39% and specifically 144 out of 289 meetings of Assadi with his agents were held in Germany. Authorities are still investigating a long list of paid and unpaid people who are probably members of Iran\u2019s network in Europe. Key questions: Who are the agents mentioned in Assadi\u2019s notebook? Which diplomat has Zarif appointed to run the network instead of Assadi? https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/assadollah-assadi-spy-network-20210126\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Receipts and a journal were recovered from Assadi\u2019s vehicle which showed that he had provided cash payments for unknown services to individuals in at least 11 European countries. Along the way, he had also recorded information about various points of interest including some that already come to the attention of Western agencies as potential sources of logistical and financial support for terrorist groups like Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">These facts vindicate longstanding calls for an assertive shift in Western policy. Mrs. Rajavi reiterated this message in the wake of Thursday\u2019s verdict, as did numerous American and European lawmakers and foreign policy experts who took part in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/live-stream-on-february-4-a-first-by-a-european-court-conviction-of-iran-regime-diplomat-terrorist-and-3-intelligence-agents\/\" rel=\"noopener\">virtual conferences<\/a> to discuss possible next steps that their governments could take. Former US Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge praised the Belgian court\u2019s decision and accompanying statements from Western leaders but noted that \u201crhetorical condemnation without further action will be of little impact on this rogue regime, which heretofore has been totally unwilling to change its behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Various other commentators attributed that aversions to change to a pattern of conciliation or outright appeasement in Western dealings with the Iranian regime. Reflecting upon that trend in the wake of Thursday\u2019s verdict, former US Senator Robert Torricelli said, \u201cI do not know how European leaders who have Iranian embassies in their capital can continue as if nothing has happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former Undersecretary of State Robert Joseph expressed much the same sentiment in the form of a warning: \u201cMore concessions to the regime will only bring further injustice to the Iranian people and more terrorist acts.\u201d The perceived relationship between these two outcomes stems from the fact that the 2018 terror plot emerged in the aftermath of a major anti-regime uprising inside Iran at the beginning of the year, which was violently suppressed by the regime\u2019s repressive forces like the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">That repression ultimately proved inadequate to prevent what Mrs. Rajavi called a \u201cyear full of uprisings.\u201d It also seemingly failed to compensate for the effects of the regime\u2019s acknowledgment, at the height of the uprising, that the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" rel=\"noopener\">PMOI-MEK<\/a>) was organizing the uprisings. This flew in the face of many years of propaganda which discounted the Resistance movement as marginal and lacking in organizational strength. By extension, it revealed a level of anxiety among the regime\u2019s leadership which has also been highlighted in the context of urging more assertive Western policies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former Columbian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt emphasized that anxiety in her remarks on the Assadi verdict and the underlying pattern of Iranian terrorism. \u201cThe sheer madness to kill thousands of civilians shows the fear of the regime of being overthrown by its own people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">That fear helps to reveal to Western policymakers the potential effectiveness of taking a hard line with the Iranian regime. It suggests that by isolating the regime diplomatically and financially, the international community could support what could be a more successful anti-regime uprisings inside Iran. And that possibility is further underscored by the fact that the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/anniversary-of-2018-iran-protests-and-international-communitys-obligations\/\" rel=\"noopener\">uprising<\/a> at the start of 2018 was not the only one of its kind. In the subsequent three years there have been four others, including one in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-november-2019-uprising-and-its-amplifications\/\" rel=\"noopener\">November 2019<\/a> which spanned nearly 200 cities and towns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For Western governments, the lessons of these uprisings are potentially related to the lessons of the Assadi case. But those latter lessons are vitally important in their own right, and they indicate that regardless of the outcome inside Iran, it is necessary for Western security that Iran\u2019s international networks be scrutinized, isolated, and dismantled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In service of that goal, one of the first things the international community can do is impose sanctions and travel restrictions on Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-world\/26715-a-look-at-the-record-of-iran-regime-foreign-minister-javad-zarif\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohammad Javad Zarif<\/a>, whose role as the overseer of all Iranian diplomats means that he was aware of Assadi\u2019s activities, and most likely complicit in them. From this starting point, Western governments can move on to pursue accountability from other high-ranking authorities in the Iranian regime, in line with Belgian prosecutors\u2019 observation that they directed Assadi to undertake his terror plot on European soil. He was surely neither the first nor will he be the last to receive such orders unless the international community makes concerted efforts to prevent more of the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As Robert Joseph put it in the NCRI\u2019s remote conference on Thursday, \u201cIf the leaders of free societies fail to hold the perpetrators responsible, including at the highest levels in Tehran, it will only encourage more terrorist attacks and make us complicit in them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement posted to Twitter, the Iranian Resistance&rsquo;s president-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi welcomed news of a guilty verdict in a Belgian court case of Iran&rsquo;s diplomat-terrorist by saying, &ldquo;Conviction [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":234710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[129,273,287],"class_list":{"0":"post-234707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-terrorism-a-fundamentalism","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-assadollah-assadi","10":"tag-iran-terrorism"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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