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2021-05-06 Europe
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Iran Diplomat's 20-year Sentence for France Bomb Plot Confirmed
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[AnNahar] An Iranian diplomat's 20-year sentence in Belgium for plotting to bomb an opposition rally outside Gay Paree was confirmed on Wednesday after he failed to appeal, his lawyer and prosecutors said.
Assadollah Assadi, 49, was convicted in February by an Antwerp court of supplying explosives for the planned June 30, 2018 attack on the exiled opposition group the National Council of Resistance® in 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).
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"I confirmed today that Mr Assadi does not wish to appeal," his lawyer, Dimitri de Beco, told AFP, adding that his client contests the legitimacy of the Belgian justice system.
A front man for Belgium's federal prosecutor's office confirmed that "Mr Assadi's lawyer has failed to lodge an appeal" to the conviction.
Three individuals sentenced to between 15 and 18 years in prison as accomplices are maintaining their appeals against their convictions, the front man said. Those arguments are to be heard around mid-November.
Iran has strongly protested Assadi's conviction. Days after the February verdict, Iran's foreign ministry summoned Belgium's ambassador in Tehran to convey its fury.
- ATTACK FOILED -
Belgian police thwarted the 2018 attack when they intercepted a car carrying the bomb, acting on information gathered by several European intelligence services.
Assadi, who was attached to Iran's embassy in Austria at the time, was arrested the following day in Germany, where he was deemed unable to claim diplomatic immunity.
Investigators concluded that he was an Iranian agent working under diplomatic cover.
The court ruled on February 4 that Assadi was guilty of an attempted attack "of a terrorist nature" and "participating in activities of a terrorist group" before handing him the maximum sentence.
The trial featured surveillance images of Assadi dressed as a tourist, in a hat and with a camera, handing a couple a package in Luxembourg on June 28, 2018.
The couple -- Nasimeh Naami and Amir Saadouni, both Iranian-Belgian dual nationals -- were found to have accepted from Assadi a half-kilogramme of TATP explosives and a detonator.
Another Iranian-Belgian, former dissident Mehrdad Arefani,
| ...said to be a relative of Mr. Assadi... |
was also found guilty of being an accomplice, tasked with guiding the couple to the rally.
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The NCRI gathering included big shots of the dissident group and some high-profile supporters, including former US president Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
In a statement on Wednesday, the NCRI's leader Maryam Rajavi said the "terrorist conspiracy" showed Iran's embassies and state-backed cultural centres in the EU should be closed and Iranian refugees acting as "regime agents" should be deported.
The NCRI's lawyer in the case, Georges-Henri Beauthier, told AFP that the big victory in Assadi's conviction was that "the court established that the attack plot was brought about by the Iranian state and that the verdict is definitive".
He added that "we might fear that the Iranian state could want to carry out other actions in Europe, given they have lost this round".
There are also concerns Iran might seek to pressure Belgium to release Assadi by detaining more European nationals.
An Iranian-Swedish academic who guest lectured at Belgium's VUB university, Ahmadreza Djalali, has been given a death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
by Iran's regime, which has accused him of espionage.
Assadi, who refused to attend his trial and contested all the charges, does not recognize the standing of the appeals court because he believes he should have been granted diplomatic immunity, lawyer de Beco said.
During the trial, lawyers for the plaintiffs and representatives of the exiled Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK,
| ...in English People’s Mojahedin of Iran, one of the groups of the NCRI ... |
claimed without offering evidence that Assadi set up the bombing plan on direct orders from Iran’s highest authorities. Tehran has denied having a hand in the plot.
MEK leader Maryam Rajavi on Wednesday reasserted her claims that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had approved Assadi’s plan. 
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