“Investigators say Assadi transported the explosives for the plot on a commercial flight to Austria from Iran, according to a document by Belgium’s federal prosecutor seen by Reuters news agency.” Assadi was formerly based in Vienna, and “was found guilty of planning to bomb a meeting of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in a Parisian suburb in 2018, but the attack was foiled by German, French, and Belgian police.”
Iran claims that the 20-year maximum sentence handed down to Assadi violates “the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations – a treaty governing relations between states,” and the regime’s response was expectedly brazen:
The Antwerp Court ruling violates international law and ignores Belgium’s obligations to the Islamic Republic of Iran, therefore Iran does not recognise it in any way.
Iran has no respect for international boundaries; its jihadist proxies are working in Western countries to expand the powers of the jihadist regime. The National Council of Resistance of Iran is a coalition that seeks to replace the Iranian regime. It is alarming that Iran exports its thugs to murder its opponents and then complains about violations of international law when justice is served against it. Belgium has no “obligations” to Iran, but to its own free society, security, and the rule of law.
The Iranian regime’s reaction to Assadi’s sentence is yet another manifestation of Iran’s habit of overreaching into the affairs of other countries, even as the regime’s proxies pose a severe security threat to foreign countries. Too many naïve and/or cowardly Westerners are no match for Iran. We can only hope that Belgium will stand up for its own rights.
“Tehran summons Belgian envoy after Iranian diplomat jailed for 20 years on foiled bomb plot charges,” RT, February 9, 2021:
Iran has summoned Belgium’s ambassador in Tehran to protest a Belgian court’s sentencing of Iranian diplomat Assadolah Assadi for orchestrating a bomb attack in Paris, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday.
Tehran repeated its claim that the 20-year maximum sentence handed down to Assadi by an Antwerp court last week is a violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations – a treaty governing relations between states.
“The Antwerp Court ruling violates international law and ignores Belgium’s obligations to the Islamic Republic of Iran, therefore Iran does not recognise it in any way,” an Iranian Foreign Ministry official told the ambassador, according to IRNA.
The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also protested Assadi’s “illegal arrest” at the embassies of Germany, Austria, and Belgium, according to the IRNA report.
On February 4, Assadi became the first Iranian official to be tried and sentenced by an EU member state for terrorism charges since the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
The diplomat, who was formerly based in Vienna, was found guilty of planning to bomb a meeting of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in a Parisian suburb in 2018, but the attack was foiled by German, French, and Belgian police.
The NCRI is an emigrant political group based in Europe that is opposed to the Iranian government.
Three Iranian-Belgian accomplices of Assadi, some of whom handled explosives, were also handed sentences of 15, 17, and 18 years and were told they would be stripped of their Belgian citizenship….
Maureen Chaloner says
So this guy was plotting ti murder people ( Christians again )and Iran is upset? WHY, because it FAILED???
mortimer says
He was planning to murder most of the leaders of the Iranian opposition. This may have been at the behest of the mullahs.
I wonder what sentence an Iranian court would give to someone who planned to bomb the mullahs. It would probably be the firing squad after torture in an Iranian secret police jail.
Mason Stewart says
Muhammad number one baby name in Britain for 2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9005603/The-popular-names-2020-Sophia-Muhammad-according-BabyCentres-annual-report.html
11th year in a row
https://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/10/28/uk.mohammed/index.html
Eleanor says
Was going to say I have sympathy for UK teachers, but in fact, after thinking about it for a second or two, I don’t have any sympathy for that rotten leftie lot at all.
somehistory says
The moolahs of iran do not obey any laws, abide by any treaties, and do as they please…but they always fall back on the ‘treaties’ and ‘laws’ made or agreed to by other nations when they have complaints to make.
One reason not to be a “diplomate”…being “summoned” by the likes of the moolahs of iran to ‘answer’ for the actions of a government.
If they don’t want their diplomates to be imprisoned, they should make sure they don’t send a moslim to be their diplomate and murder people. They should send someone who is not a terrorist, than that one won’t be running afoul of the laws of other nations.
somehistory says
Then, not “than.”
ElderlyZionist says
I expect the Persians to nab a few random Belgian citizens, railroad them on trumped-up charges of espionage, then trade them for their IRGC operatives. That’s how the Mullahs roll.
gravenimage says
Quite likely.
JimJFox says
PERSIANS?? NO!
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Eleanor- Teachers don’t vote on curriculums, boards of education and state and federal bureaucrats do. You, like so many others, simply blame the messengers and will site corporate charter schools, often owned by wall street hedge fund investors, as a better alternative. However, many states don’t hold these schools and their overworked, underpaid teachers to the same standards. They are free to teach a classical form of education, embracing many Western values and accomplishments. In contrast, public school teachers have no choice but to follow what is put in front of them. Big Brother is always watching. It is their way or the highway.
James Lincoln says
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness,
Even after the pandemic comes under control, many parents will opt to continue homeschooling their children rather than have them being bombarded with Leftism and political correctness by public “state certified” teachers…
gravenimage says
Iran angrily summons Belgium’s ambassador following Belgian court sentencing of Iranian diplomat to 20 years for bomb plot
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Right–how *dare* you filthy Infidels have a problem with Muslims murdering you? Bad dhimmis!
Andrew says
Iran Officials, like most muslims around the World, are like wee babies, screaming at the top of their lungs that they want THEIR way or else they will just scream and scream until we give in, just to stop the screaming, well f**k em…
Revenge is a very important tenet in the teaching of that Fascist Religious Cult, they see us a weak kneed infidels…islam is pure evil… the teachings of Satan.