{"id":235023,"date":"2021-02-15T10:35:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T15:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=235023"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:12:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:12:08","slug":"eu-must-recognize-the-iranian-people-and-not-the-iranian-regime-as-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/eu-must-recognize-the-iranian-people-and-not-the-iranian-regime-as-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Must Recognize the Iranian People, and Not the Iranian Regime as Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maryam Rajavi, Free Iran Rally \u2014 Paris 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In June 2018, agents of the Iranian regime attempted to carry out a terrorist attack near Paris. In November 2020 the mastermind of that plot finally went on trial alongside his three known accomplices, following a two and a half year investigation. Earlier this month, a Belgian court handed down guilty verdicts for all four and sentenced the principal defendant, Assadollah Assadi<\/a>, to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n

No doubt some Western policymakers are eager to think of this matter as settled and start the business as usual with the Iranian regime. But nothing could be further from the truth. Assadi\u2019s prosecution revealed to the entire world that there is an undercurrent of Iranian terrorism which will continue to threaten Europe and the United States for as long as it remains in place. More than that, it revealed further details about the Iranian regime\u2019s ideological commitment to that terrorism, which threatens to preserve at least some aspects of that threat for as long as the ruling system remains in place.<\/p>\n

In the wake of Assadi\u2019s conviction, it is essential that the European Union and the entire international community reevaluates their approach to dealing with the Iranian regime and considers new measures that could be employed to mitigate the terrorist threat in the short term and uproot it over the long term.<\/p>\n

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An Iranian diplomat convicted to 20 years imprisonment by a court in Belgium - February 2021<\/div><\/div>
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