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In first for Europe, Iran envoy sentenced to 20-year prison term over bomb plot
[AlAhram] Reporters and members of the public were not allowed into the courtroom, which was heavily guarded by police and armoured vehicles, with police helicopters overhead

An Iranian diplomat accused of planning to bomb a meeting of an exiled opposition group was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday in the first trial of an Iranian official for suspected terrorism in the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
 since Iran’s 1979 revolution.

Belgian prosecution lawyers and civil parties to the prosecution said Vienna-based diplomat Assadolah Assadi was guilty of attempted terrorism after a plot to bomb a rally of the National Council of Resistance® of Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
(NCRI)
...in Farsi “Mujahedeen-e-Khalq”...
near Gay Paree in June 2018 was foiled by German, French and Belgian police.

"The ruling shows two things: A diplomat doesn’t have immunity for criminal acts ... and the responsibility of the Iranian state in what could have been carnage," Belgian prosecution lawyer Georges-Henri Beauthier told news hounds outside the court in Antwerp.

Reporters and members of the public were not allowed into the courtroom, which was heavily guarded by police and armoured vehicles, with police helicopters overhead.

Three other Iranians were sentenced in the trial for their role as accomplices, with 15-, 17- and 18-year sentences handed down respectively.
They are Nasimeh Naami and Amir Saadouni, a Belgian-Iranian couple arrested on their way to France with a bomb in their car, and Assadi’s relative, Mehrdad Arefani.
"It was established that the Iranian regime uses terrorism as statecraft and the highest levels of the Iranian regime are involved," Shahin Gobadi, a Gay Paree-based front man for the opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, which is part of the NCRI, said outside the court.

One of the defence lawyers said he would recommend an appeal, although it was not clear if Assadi would do so. The Islamic Theocratic Republic has denied involvement in the foiled plot, saying it is a Western trap.
The Times of Israel adds:
Investigators concluded Assadi was an Iranian agent working under diplomatic cover.

The Belgian court found that Assadi, now 49, was attached to the Iranian embassy in Austria when he supplied explosives for an attack that was planned for a June 30, 2018 rally in France of the exiled opposition group the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI).

He was charged with attempted murders of a terrorist nature and taking part in the activity of a terrorist group.

“Unfortunately, Belgium and certain European countries, under the hostile influence of the Monafeqin terrorist group in Europe have taken such an illegal and unjustifiable action,” Khatibzadeh said. The term Monafeqin, hypocrites in Persian, is used by Iranian officials to refer to the armed wing of the NCRI.

Three of his accomplices, dual Iranian-Belgian nationals, were also stripped of their Belgian citizenship.

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