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A Belgium armed police vehicle is stationed during the trial of four people, including a Belgian couple of Iranian heritage and an Iranian diplomat at the Antwerp criminal court on February 4, 2021. AFP pic
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ANTWERP (Belgium), Feb 4 A Belgian court convicted an Iranian diplomat today for plotting a thwarted 2018 bombing of an opposition rally outside Paris and ordered him jailed for 20 years.
The trial was conducted under tight security in the Belgian port of Antwerp and has further poisoned already tense relations between Tehran and European capitals.
Iranian undercover agent convicted for bomb plot against opposition meeting in Paris
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The 2018 meeting of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) was the target of the bomb plot.
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An Iranian diplomat identified as an undercover agent has been convicted for plotting to bomb a meeting of an exiled Iranian opposition group in France attended by Donald Trump s lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
Key points:
Lawyers claim the attack was on direct orders from Iran s highest authorities
Iran condemned the court decisions and says it had no involvement
The Vienna-based official Assadollah Assadi was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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Iran diplomat jailed for 20 years for Paris bomb plot
4th February, 2021 11:25:11
ANTWERP: A Belgian court convicted an Iranian diplomat Thursday for plotting a thwarted 2018 bombing of an opposition rally outside Paris and ordered him jailed for 20 years.
Assadollah Assadi, now 49, was attached to the Iranian mission in Austria when he supplied explosives for the planned attack.
After the attack was foiled, he was arrested in Germany in July 2018, where he was deemed not to be able to claim diplomatic immunity.
Three accomplices, dual Iranian-Belgians, were given jail terms of between 15 and 18 years and stripped of their Belgian citizenship.
The June 30, 2018 gathering in Villepinte, near Paris, included senior leaders of the exiled National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI) and some high-profile supporters including former US president Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
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