Posted on 11/28/2020 7:45:50 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
An Iranian diplomat has gone on trial in Belgium for his part in a planned terrorist attack on a rally where Rudy Giuliani was the keynote speaker.
Assadollah Assadi, 48, a diplomat formerly based in Vienna, faces life in prison if convicted.
The target of the attack, according to prosecutors, was a rally held in Villepinte, France, on June 30, 2018, organized by the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), a political arm of the People's Mojahedin of Iran or Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK).
The group is considered a terrorist organization and an arch-enemy by Iran. Maryam Rajavi, leader of the MEK, was the main target of the attack, the court heard.
In the last-minute, international police operation, a Belgian couple of Iranian origin was stopped in a Brussels' suburb, on the day of the rally. They claimed to be on a driving holiday, said AP.
But Amir Saadouni and Nasimeh Naami, had met Assadi, an Iranian diplomat serving as a third counselor at the country's embassy in Vienna, Austria, at a Pizza Hut, the BBC added. Following Mossad's tip-off, the Israeli intelligence agency, a Belgian plainclothes officer, observed Assadi handing them a package that contained a powerful explosive, reported the New York Times.
The pair denied knowing that they were handed a bomb. Naami said she thought it contained fireworks, ABC News reported.
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Now, IF only the MOSSAD would take out the entire Soros regime....hey, we can dream, can’t we?
Leave George for last...
Is the Biden team in mourning?
Brennan foiled again, so upsetting for him.
He must pay protection shekels?
He'll be along shortly to proclaim the arrest of these terrorists to be a crime that will invite Iranian retaliation.
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