{"id":234931,"date":"2021-02-13T09:48:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T14:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=234931"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:12:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:12:19","slug":"turning-a-blind-eye-to-irans-terrorism-in-europe-will-bring-more-terrorism-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/turning-a-blind-eye-to-irans-terrorism-in-europe-will-bring-more-terrorism-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning a Blind Eye To Iran\u2019s Terrorism in Europe Will Bring More Terrorism To Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Earlier this month, the Western world achieved a significant milestone in its relations with the Iranian regime when a high-ranking Iranian diplomat was found guilty of plotting terrorism in the heart of Europe. Although many other such figures have come under suspicion in the past and several have been expelled from their diplomatic posts, Assadollah Assadi<\/a> was the first to actually face prosecution. His trial was arguably a sign of diminishing patience for Iran\u2019s malign activities, but unfortunately it has yet to spark a broader shift in Western policies toward the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n

Still, that shift is vitally important, as details of Assadi\u2019s trial make clear. Investigators and prosecutors repeatedly emphasized that the specific plot in question, the attempted bombing of an Iranian expatriate gathering held just outside Paris in June 2018, was not the product of Assadi\u2019s own initiative but had been undertaken on orders from high in the Iranian regime. As part of that plot, Assadi employed three co-conspirators including an Iranian-Belgian couple to whom he personally delivered an explosive device along with instructions to place it as close as possible to the event\u2019s keynote speaker, the Iranian Resistance leader Maryam Rajavi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In making it clear that Rajavi was the prime target, Assadi effectively confirmed the relationship between the terror plot and the challenges that regime authorities were then facing inside Iran. Several months before the plot was thwarted by European law enforcement, Iranians in more than 100 cities and towns took to the streets in a spontaneous protest<\/a> against the ruling system.<\/p>\n

While that movement was still in full swing, Iran\u2019s regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei begrudgingly acknowledged that the MEK<\/a> had played a major role in organizing the protests and popularizing their unusually provocative slogans, which explicitly endorsed regime change and the creation of a democratic government like that which Mrs. Rajavi has advocated in her 10-point plan<\/a> for the country\u2019s future. That plan also endorses the separation of religion from the state and legal safeguards on the rights of women and minorities, and as such it has been recognized by a politically diverse array of Western policymakers.<\/p>\n

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