Assadolah Assadi was found guilty of “attempted terrorism” for “a foiled plot to bomb a 2018 rally of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a French-based dissident group.” The NCRI coalition is made up of Iranian dissident groups; the main member is the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), a controversial group that is […]
Iran angrily summons Belgium’s ambassador following Belgian court sentencing of Iranian diplomat to 20 years for bomb plot
“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 […]