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November 30, 2020       Share:    

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/world/europe/iran-dissidents-bomb-assadi-belgium.html

Iranian Diplomat Accused of Plotting to Bomb Dissidents Goes on Trial in Belgium

(New York Times) Steven Erlanger - An Iranian diplomat based in Vienna and three other Iranians went on trial on Friday in Antwerp, Belgium, over a plot to blow up a rally in France of a prominent Iranian opposition group. Belgian and French authorities, who were tipped off by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, said the plot was organized by Iran's intelligence services. The Iranian diplomat, Assadollah Assadi, 48, brought the bomb, more than a pound of TATP explosives and a detonator, to Vienna from Iran in his luggage on an Austrian Airlines flight. He then drove it to Luxembourg and handed it over to Iranian agents on June 30, 2018, who then drove to Paris. Assadi was arrested in Germany, where he had no diplomatic immunity.

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