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With negotiations over possible re-implementation of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal still at an impasse, Iran\u2019s ruling theocracy has recently made some of its most provocative moves to date. Following a formal censure from the International Atomic Energy Agency\u2019s Board of Governors, the regime began dismantling surveillance<\/a> cameras at a number of nuclear sites, then started rapid enrichment of uranium using a new array of advanced centrifuges in the fortified nuclear facility at Fordo. On Sunday, the regime\u2019s former Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi, cherished by Western powers as a \u201creformist,\u201d compounded the regime\u2019s nuclear extortion by declaring outright that \u201cit’s no secret that we have the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, disputes continue to develop between the regime and its alternative. Last week saw a Stockholm court pass a sentence on a former Iranian prison official whom it had charged with committing mass murder in his home country. Swedish authorities invoked the principle of universal jurisdiction to hold Hamid Noury accountable for a crime against humanity during the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, which Tehran would only continue to ignore. He is now expected to spend the rest of his life in prison.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On June 30, it was revealed that Belgian authorities, apparently with the help of one or more other European governments, had secretly negotiated a treaty with the Iranian regime that could lead to the release from custody of a notorious Iranian terrorist. Assadollah Assadi was sentenced to 20 years<\/a> in prison early last year after a trial confirmed that he had been the mastermind of a failed plot to set off explosives at the annual gathering of the Iranian Resistance near Paris in 2018. Two of Assadi\u2019s co-conspirators were arrested while attempting to cross the border from Belgium to France, carrying 500 grams of high explosives Assadi himself had smuggled into Europe.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He was able to do this because at the time the plot was unfolding, Assadi was serving as a diplomat at the Iranian regime\u2019s embassy in Vienna, and thus was able to circumvent normal security screenings when boarding commercial flights. His abuse of that privileged indicates a sense of impunity shared between him and the regime as a whole, leading Tehran to repeatedly insist that the case against him was unlawful, regardless of the seriousness of his crimes or where they took place. Iran\u2019s foreign minister reportedly reiterated this claim in February on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, less than a month before the Belgian treaty took shape.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On Sunday, Alireza Jafarzadeh, the deputy director of the National Council of Resistance of Iran\u2019s US office, reiterated that \u201cthe Government of Belgium must not return the regime\u2019s convicted terrorist, Asadollah Assadi, as a gift to Tehran.\u201d He cited the latest reason for the regime\u2019s decision to sanction 61 American renowned officials and lawmakers as symbolic punishment for their support of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n These 61 Americans sanctioned by #Iran<\/a>'s regime are fighting state-sponsored terrorism by the ruling theocracy in Iran. Today\u2019s designation should be an added reason why Belgium must not return the regime\u2019s convicted terrorist Assadi, as a gift to Tehran. https:\/\/t.co\/ozK7w1YS58<\/a><\/p>\n — Alireza Jafarzadeh (@A_Jafarzadeh) July 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n