{"id":19730,"date":"2020-11-27T12:23:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T11:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=19730"},"modified":"2020-11-27T12:23:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T11:23:38","slug":"twitter-storm-over-iranian-terrorist-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2020\/11\/twitter-storm-over-iranian-terrorist-diplomat\/19730\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter storm over Iranian terrorist diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, November 27, a Belgian court tries an Iranian terrorist diplomat Assadollah Assadi for involving in a bomb attack against the Iranian opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in 2018. Assadi was the third counselor of the Iranian embassy <\/a>in Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had recruited three individuals to implement the plot against dissidents\u2019 annual gathering in Villepinte, suburb of Paris. According to reports, over 100,000 people, including hundreds of dignitaries like former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and former Colombian Senator Ingrid Betancourt, were in attendance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the terrorists\u2019 main target was the NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi. Evidence and defense provided by the NCRI and complaints\u2019 attorneys prove that the highest-ranking Iranian officials including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei<\/a>, President Hassan Rouhani<\/a>, Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif<\/a>, and Intelligence Minister<\/a> Mahmoud Alavi<\/a>, were involved in the attack. Attorneys also argue that the attack was possible to kill at least hundreds of attendees, which would have been the biggest terror attack in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 22, 2020, was the day when supporters of the Iranian opposition group, the People\u2019s Mojahedin <\/a>Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK), created a Twitter storm over the failure of the international community to respond to a failed terror plot by the regime in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi<\/a> planned to attack the rally at the behest of the highest officials in the regime, Rouhani and Khamenei. The Sunday Times<\/a> wrote two weeks ago that this was planned because Khamenei and other mullahs were so thrown by the December 2017 uprising, led by the MEK, that they made a desperate move to quash future uprisings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not clear why they thought that this would work because oppression has long made the MEK stronger and, if the bomb had gone off, it would have meant Western power teaming up against Iran and potentially starting a war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assadi smuggled an explosive device into Europe and then travelled from the embassy in Austria to hand the bomb off to the terrorists he\u2019d hired in Luxembourg. They were supposed to drive the bomb to the MEK rally, but they were arrested before any attack could take place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trial of Assadi and his three accomplices \u2013 Amir Saadouni, Nasimeh Naami, and an unnamed assailant \u2013 will begin on Friday, November 27, but we should note that the world should really hold the regime\u2019s top officials to account as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Twitter storm, MEK supporters demanded that the international community:<\/p>\n\n\n\n