Assadollah Assadi, 48, allegedly worked undercover at Iran's embassy in Vienna. He is one of the first ever diplomats to face terror charges
Posted on 11/28/2020 8:43:16 AM PST by xomething
An Iranian diplomat will go on trial in Belgium today accused of plotting to bomb a 2018 Paris conference attended by five British MPs and Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
Assadollah Assadi, 48, is accused of smuggling a bomb made from 'Mother of Satan' explosives to Europe from Tehran in a diplomatic bag that was exempt from airport security checks ahead of the event.
Prosecutors say he then handed the bag off to accomplices who were supposed to plant it at a summit held by Iranian opposition leaders in the French capital.
Speakers at the rally included British MPs Bob Blackman, Matthew Offord, Sir David Amess, Theresa Villiers and Roger Godsiff; Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer and former New York mayor; and Bill Richardson, former US Ambassador to the UN.
Assadi, understood to be an officer in Iran's intelligence and security ministry, is the first Iranian ambassador to face terrorism charges in Europe.
Prosecutors say Assadi, 48, carried the bomb on a commercial flight from Tehran to Vienna, where he was ambassador, some time ahead of the conference which took place on June 30, 2018.
He allegedly handed the explosives to a Belgian-Iranian couple - Nassimeh Naami, 36, and Amir Saadouni, 40 - who took the bomb by car towards Paris.
However, Belgian police stopped the vehicle near Antwerp and discvoered 1lbs of TATP explosives - the same kind used in the Manchester Arena bombing - inside, along with a detonator....
Also on trial is Mehrdad Arefani, 57, an Iranian poet...
Assadollah Assadi, 48, allegedly worked undercover at Iran's embassy in Vienna. He is one of the first ever diplomats to face terror charges
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Guy Fawkes copycat.
In a sane world, this should forever void any special diplomatic privileges for Iranian diplomats.
They should be subject to the same routine security checks as the common folk on every single leg of travel.
Brennan must be really pissed about that.
Iran will ‘kidnap’ an unsuspecting tourist/student and hold that person for ransom. The price will be the diplomat’s release. Hiding behind diplomatic immunity is like a reporter hiding behind the 1st amendment or Bill Clinton hiding behind the skirts of Janet Reno and Hillary. The way to deal with it is a military strike once the verdict is given. It sends a message you can’t take back.
” in a diplomatic bag that was exempt from airport security checks “
I don’t play a security expert on tv, but I think I’ve identified a possible glitch in the system.
>>Assadollah Assadi, 48, is accused of smuggling a bomb made from ‘Mother of Satan’ explosives to Europe from Tehran in a diplomatic bag that was exempt from airport security checks ahead of the event.
time to rethink the notion of Iranian diplomacy
And how can he go on trial? “Diplomatic immunity”
FR won’t allow anything from unz.com, but there is a really interesting piece about how Muslim immigrants ruin a city. It’s called “Is Brussels Broken?”
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