Iranian Diplomat Is Convicted in Plot to Bomb Opposition Rally in France
A court in Belgium sentenced Assadollah Assadi, an envoy based in Vienna, to 20 years in prison for his role in a thwarted attack on a group that seeks to overthrow the Iranian leadership.
Demonstrators in Antwerp, Belgium, on Thursday carried pictures of Maryam Rajavi, the leader of an exiled Iranian opposition group who was said to have been the target of a bomb plot.Credit.Virginia Mayo/Associated Press
Published Feb. 4, 2021Updated Feb. 15, 2021
BRUSSELS A Belgian court on Thursday stripped a senior Iranian official of his diplomatic immunity, convicted him of organizing a thwarted bomb attack aimed at an Iranian opposition rally in France in 2018 and sentenced him to 20 years in prison.
Iranian Hackers Can Beat Encrypted Apps like Telegram, Researchers Say
News Highlights: Iranian Hackers Can Beat Encrypted Apps like Telegram, Researchers Say.
Iranian hackers, most likely government employees or affiliates, have conducted an extensive cyber-espionage operation equipped with surveillance tools that outsmart encrypted messaging systems – a capability that Iran was previously unknown to have, according to two digital security reports released Friday. have been released.
The operation not only targets domestic dissidents, religious and ethnic minorities and anti-government activists abroad, but could also be used to spy on the general public in Iran, the reports said. Check Point Software Technologies, a cybersecurity technology company, and the Miaan Group, a human rights organization that focuses on digital security in the Middle East.