In a statement, 21 former European ministers urged the Belgian prime minister to make it crystal clear that terrorists will not be included in the prisoner swap agreement with Iran.
Assadollah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat-terrorist who was imprisoned after attempting to bomb an opposition rally in Paris in 2018, can be released by Brussels once the treaty is signed. The Belgian Judiciary found Assadi, which is one of only 20 individuals on the EU’s terrorist blacklist, guilty of planning the attempted bombing of the summit held in France on June 30, 2018, by the Iranian dissident movement National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). Tens of thousands of people, including hundreds of prominent international figures from both sides of the Atlantic, attended the summit.
The NCRI held a press conference in Washington on August 14, 2002, to discuss ongoing work on nuclear weapons at covert locations close to the Iranian cities of Natanz and Arak.
Following the 20th anniversary of the initial public disclosures about the country’s nuclear weapons program, a number of specialists in international security and non-proliferation met with representatives of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to talk about the current status of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK) supporters and pro-freedom Iranians held protests against the mullahs’ regime in Iran. These protests took place in recent days in Rome, Cologne, Stuttgart, Oslo, and Copenhagen in Germany, as well as Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Oslo, and Copenhagen in Norway.
A treaty was signed in March between the Iranian government and Belgium that paved the way for the release of Assadi, but it wasn’t made public until the end of June when it was submitted to the Belgian parliament for ratification.
The Iranian Resistance filed a petition with the Brussels Court of First Instance on Thursday to prevent the extradition and release of Assadollah Assadi, a convicted Iranian regime diplomat-terrorist.In 2018, Assadi and his associates attempted to bomb a 100,000-person Iranian Resistance gathering in France, which included hundreds of lawmakers, current and former officials, and dignitaries from five continents.
Nobel laureates supported the anti-clerical regime demonstrations by the Iranian people.
42 Nobel laureates issued a statement in support of the Free Iran World Summit 2022. They expressed their support for Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). They also supported the anti-clerical regime demonstrations by the Iranian people. In part, the statement reads as follows: “The Iranian regime is trying to spread despair among the youth by claiming that there is no alternative to its rule and that the only remaining choice is between the current theocracy and the former monarchical dictatorship. This is while the Iranian people, in their demonstrations and protests, are constantly chanting that “Neither the Shah nor the Mullah, damned be both of them”.
Opponents of the “Transfer for Sentenced Persons” treaty are understandably concerned that Assadi’s release could provide the Iranian regime with clear incentives to ramp up its practice of hostage-taking.
This week, a treaty was ratified by the Belgian parliament, which will likely pave the way for the exchange of an Iranian terrorist for a Belgian national who is a hostage in the Islamic Republic. Olivier Vandecasteele was detained by Iranian authorities in February, roughly a year after a Belgian court sentenced the Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi to 20 years in prison for organizing a plot to bomb an opposition gathering in Iran close to Paris in 2018.
Ali Khamenei claimed on Monday that the regime had already developed the capability to easily produce weapons-grade uranium.
The list of crises involving the Iranian regime that the international community is dealing with is getting longer and longer. Meanwhile, an organized Iranian opposition movement is offering clear recommendations for resolving those crises, with support from a politically and geographically diverse array of supporters from around the world.
A treaty was signed in March between the Iranian government and Belgium that paved the way for the release of Assadi, but it wasn’t made public until the end of June when it was submitted to the Belgian parliament for ratification.
The Belgian government was barred on Friday from sending terrorist diplomat Assadollah Assadi to Iran by the Brussels Court of Appeal. In 2018, Assadi orchestrated a terrorist plot to detonate explosives at the NCRI rally, which drew tens of thousands of foreigners and well-known politicians to a venue close to Paris. A Belgian court last year sentenced Assadi to 20 years in prison after the plot, which had the potential to be the worst terrorist attack on the continent to date, was ultimately thwarted by European law enforcement.
The convicted diplomat-terrorist Assadollah Assadi of the Iranian regime cannot currently be extradited to Iran, according to a decision made by the Brussels Court of Appeal on Friday night.
Since 2018, Iran has experienced the brutal repression of eight significant protests for democratic change, according to Amnesty International’s 2021 report.
For 40 years, an extremist regime has held the Iranian people hostage, destroying Iran’s natural resources, social fabric, rich culture, temperate environment, and economic potential. In response to the people’s protests, it has repressed dissent and used state-approved violence, imprisonment, torture, and executions. The regime holds the world record for the number of executions, particularly of women and children.
