{"id":236293,"date":"2021-03-13T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=236293"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:03:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:03:54","slug":"isj-slam-sham-show-trial-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/isj-slam-sham-show-trial-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"ISJ Slam Sham Show-Trial in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Iranian regime’s Judiciary has recently started a sham trial against the Iranian opposition, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a> (PMOI\/MEK<\/a>), and its leaders. The case is based on the so-called testimonies of 40 individuals. These individuals are the regime’s agents, posing as the MEK’s “former members.” After the regime began this sham trial, the International Committee in Search of Justice (ISJ<\/a>) issued the following statement, calling on the regime and its top authorities to come to an international court.<\/p>\n

The full text of this statement is below:<\/h2>\n

The embarrassment and humiliation of the Iranian regime over the jailing in Belgium of one of their diplomats has provoked a bizarre attempt at retaliation. Assadollah Assadi<\/a>, a diplomat from the Iranian embassy in Vienna, was sentenced last month to a maximum of twenty years imprisonment for terrorism and attempted murder. Three co-conspirators each received long jail terms. Assadi had flown from Tehran to Vienna on a commercial airliner with a carefully constructed bomb in his diplomatic pouch. He had then ordered his co-conspirators to detonate the bomb at an Iranian opposition rally<\/a> in Paris. Had the plot succeeded, hundreds of men, women, and children would have been killed on European soil.<\/p>\n

For the theocratic regime, Assadi\u2019s conviction has come as a terrible blow. It couldn\u2019t have happened at a worse time, just as they were trying to blackmail the new Biden administration into lifting sanctions and restoring the failed nuclear deal. In the west, politicians and the media were trumpeting the fact that Assadi could only have been working under the direct instructions of the regime\u2019s leadership. The finger of blame was pointing directly at Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, President Hassan Rouhani, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif<\/a>, and Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi. There were calls in the west to close Iran\u2019s embassies and expel their diplomats. Hundreds of Iranian spies and agents in the pay of the Ministry of Intelligence & Security (MOIS), the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC<\/a>), and its extraterritorial Quds Force<\/a>, embedded across the EU and America, must have taken fright at the prospect of suffering a similar fate to Assadi.<\/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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