{"id":20971,"date":"2021-02-04T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=20971"},"modified":"2021-02-04T18:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:00:34","slug":"ncri-us-virtual-briefing-to-present-evidence-of-iranian-foreign-ministrys-role-in-paris-bombing-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/activities-outside-iran\/2021\/02\/ncri-us-virtual-briefing-to-present-evidence-of-iranian-foreign-ministrys-role-in-paris-bombing-plot\/20971\/","title":{"rendered":"NCRI-US Virtual Briefing to: Present Evidence of Iranian Foreign Ministry\u2019s Role in Paris Bombing Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<!--?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"--><html><body><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Virtual Briefing: Focusing on Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry\u2019s Role in State-Sponsored Terrorism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, February 4, a court in Belgium an Iranian regime diplomat and his three accomplices guilty of plotting to bomb a major Iranian opposition rally back in June 2018 held just north of Paris. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (<a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/national-council-of-resistance-of-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NCRI<\/a>), that hosted the 2018 gathering, held a virtual briefing featuring a panel of renowned American politicians discussing the evidence linking the role of the regime\u2019s Foreign Ministry in the foiled Paris bombing plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderated by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/A_Jafarzadeh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alireza Jafarzadeh<\/a>, the Deputy Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncrius.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NCRI U.S. Representative Office<\/a>.<br>The panel included Gov. Tom Ridge, former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Senator Robert Torricelli, Amb. Robert Joseph, former Undersecretary of the State for Arms Control and International Security, Amb. Marc Ginsberg, former White House Middle East Advisor, Amb. Lincoln Bloomfield, Distinguished Fellow and Chairman Emeritus at the Stimson Center, and NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee member Farzin Hashemi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EUTime4FirmIranPolicy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EUTime4FirmIranPolicy<\/a> <br>American experts and politicians, supporters of NCRI and Free <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> talk live about Zarif's role in terrorism by the Iranian regime.<br>Follow on .<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCRIUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NCRIUS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SJpPgn4Etu\">https:\/\/t.co\/SJpPgn4Etu<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Iran Freedom (@4FreedominIran) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/4FreedominIran\/status\/1357369917247479814?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee member Farzin Hashemi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"622\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NCRI-Foreign-Affairs-Committee-member-Farzin-Hashemi.jpg\" alt=\"NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee member Farzin Hashemi\" class=\"wp-image-20974\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NCRI-Foreign-Affairs-Committee-member-Farzin-Hashemi.jpg 622w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NCRI-Foreign-Affairs-Committee-member-Farzin-Hashemi-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><figcaption><em>NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee member Farzin Hashemi<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is a historic day and this is an historic judgement by the court in Antwerp. Over the past two-and-half years, the regime did all it could to derail the trial. They first raised diplomatic immunity for Assadi, which was rejected. They also put diplomatic pressure on European countries. When that didn\u2019t work, Assadi directly threatened the investigators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their next measure was to take dual nationals as hostages in Iran. Before the trial, the regime announced that it would be executing one of the hostages. The Belgian judiciary also acknowledged that the regime has proposed prisoner swaps, which Belgium has rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the court said today was the confirmation that what we are facing is state terrorism. For many years, there has been a false notion that the terrorist activities attributed to the regime are the works of rogue elements. But this file clearly shows that the entirety of the regime were involved. The decision was made at the Supreme National Security council and approved by Khamenei. It was closely coordinated with the Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assadi was identified by the court as a senior agent of the regime\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-opposition-ncri-conference-the-inner-workings-tehrans-terror-espionage-machine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MOIS<\/a>), but it was also stressed that he was not acting on his own volition and carried out the plot on behalf of Tehran.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court also stressed that had the attack not been foiled, it could have caused mass casualties and was indeed an act of terrorism. The evidence is undeniable.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beligan security services also concluded that the terrorist act was planned in Iran and Assadi was acting on behalf of the state of Iran. Every single argument that the lawyers of Assadi and other defendants had made were rejected by the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assadi used his diplomatic privilege for terrorism purposes. This is a good reminder to anyone who wants to negotiate with the regime that they are all complicit in the regime\u2019s crimes. Zarif facilitated the attack through his diplomatic channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The terrorist network run by Assadi must have been extremely extensive, the judge said, based on the payroll that Assadi carried and the payments he made. This terrorist apparatus is still out there and active. European countries\u2014and also in the United States\u2014a major practical task for all these governments is to identify and dismantle this terrorist network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is enormously vital in this regard is a right policy. It is important in the U.S. and Europe to take this matter very seriously and make sure the right policy is adopted. When you make concessions to the mullahs regime, they will become emboldened in their attacks in Europe, their belligerence in Europe, and their nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judicial system in Belgium has completed its task with the conviction of the terrorist and clarifying the Iranian regime was behind this terrorist act. It is now time for European governments and the U.S. to take the right measures to contain the regime\u2019s terrorist behavior and human rights violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a turning point and it is time for the world to recognize this is a regime that is a state sponsor of terrorism, and they must also recognize the Iranian people\u2019s desire for regime change at their own hands and that of their resistance movement. It is time for a new Iran policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy Director of NCRI-U.S. Representative Office<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Alireza-Jafarzadeh-Deputy-Director-of-NCRI-U.S.-Representative-Office.jpg\" alt=\"Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy Director of NCRI-U.S. Representative Office\" class=\"wp-image-20976\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Alireza-Jafarzadeh-Deputy-Director-of-NCRI-U.S.-Representative-Office.jpg 620w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Alireza-Jafarzadeh-Deputy-Director-of-NCRI-U.S.-Representative-Office-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption><em>Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy Director of NCRI-U.S. Representative Office<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH as Alireza Jafarzadeh of NCRI-US opens today's NCRI-US briefing to \"Examine Implications of Belgian Court <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Terrorism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Terrorism<\/a> Conviction of Iran Diplomat\" Assadollah Assadi.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Time4FirmIranPolicy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Time4FirmIranPolicy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FWBojztpDS\">https:\/\/t.co\/FWBojztpDS<\/a><\/p>\u2014 NCRI-U.S. Rep Office (@NCRIUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCRIUS\/status\/1357352588589608962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Governor Tom Ridge, first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"614\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Governor-Tom-Ridge-first-U.S.-Secretary-of-Homeland-Security.jpg\" alt=\"Governor Tom Ridge, first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security\" class=\"wp-image-20978\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Governor-Tom-Ridge-first-U.S.-Secretary-of-Homeland-Security.jpg 614w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Governor-Tom-Ridge-first-U.S.-Secretary-of-Homeland-Security-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><figcaption><em>Governor Tom Ridge, first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a reminder to the world that this was a state-sponsored terrorist act. There were a series of acts that show this is a country that has acted with impunity and audacity and against the norms of civil society. They have brought chaos and destruction to advance their own ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The truth is, this is a pariah state and they have acted that way for the past forty years. This is just the most recent terrorist event. They have exported terrorism to Europe on multiple occasions. They support Hamas and Hezbollah. They support proxies in Bahrain, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq. They have tortured and executed thousands of individuals. They have promoted plots in Africa. They are threatening international waters. They are pursuing nuclear bombs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Bush described the regime as an unelected few seeking to repress the Iranian people\u2019s hopes for freedom. Those hopes have been best expressed by the NCRI. For those country\u2019s who want to repudiate Iran\u2019s terrorism, the most important action they can take is to simply recognize the NCRI as the embodiment of the Iranian people\u2019s aspirations and hopes for freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Senator Robert Torricelli<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"619\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Senator-Robert-Torricelli.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Robert Torricelli\n\" class=\"wp-image-20981\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Senator-Robert-Torricelli.jpg 619w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Senator-Robert-Torricelli-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><figcaption>Senator Robert Torricelli<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is hard to overstate the significance of what has happened. A sovereign nation, a member of the United Nations that has diplomatic relations with the European Union, has had one of its diplomatic agents convicted of committing an act of terror in the heart of Europe, to potentially kill scores of people. I do not know how European leaders who have Iranian embassies in their capital can continue as if nothing has happened. The events of today make a mockery of the fact that these relations will maintain. Every head of European country has some serious thinking to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if the bomb had exploded as planned? I was at that rally, so was the former Prime Minister of Canada, cabinet ministers of Germany, France and Italy. Members of parliament from Europe and the U.S., along with military staff. The plan was to assassinate NCRI President Maryam Rajavi, but many of these people would have been murdered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continuing diplomatic relations with Iran in the face of what might have been is to ignore reality. Countries have serious thinking to do. If the intent of the Biden administration is to re-engage with Tehran on nuclear negotiations, they must consider who will be sitting across the table. Zarif? his agents? People who were sent to kill us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Absent these assassination attempts and today\u2019s events, it would have made sense. But what about now? Can it be possibly justified to reenter the course of negotiations without taking into account these events? Regardless of our differences, we should maintain pressure on the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The burden now falls on the political administration and in particular the Biden administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To the Iranian people, you did not choose this government and you paid the price with thousands killed and executed. The government in Tehran is a terrorist regime, and by whatever means necessary, the burden of history falls on your shoulder to remove it. This regime must fall, and all of you, wherever you are in Iran, can play a role as all leaders across Europe and America must think about their roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Amb. Robert Joseph, former U.S. Under Secretary of State and Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Amb.-Robert-Joseph.jpg\" alt=\"Amb. Robert Joseph, former U.S. Under Secretary of State and Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation\" class=\"wp-image-20982\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Amb.-Robert-Joseph.jpg 615w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Amb.-Robert-Joseph-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><figcaption><em>Amb. Robert Joseph, former U.S. Under Secretary of State and Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is truly a historic day. It is also a day of total vindication for NCRI and the cause of freedom in Iran. The question before us is what action policymakers should take.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a deliberate act of terrorism ordered and conducted by the Iranian regime. Assadi was not acting alone and he was not a rogue agent. He received orders from Tehran. He took personal possession of the bomb. Assadi used his diplomatic status as cover for his terrorist activities and there is no doubt that the regime\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs was fully aware of his identity.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This regime has already lost all its legitimacy among its own people, through the mass murder of people in Iran, by supporting terrorist groups and governments across the world, and by turning Iran into a pariah state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More concessions to the regime will only bring further injustice to the Iranian people and more terrorist acts. For the EU, this means withdrawing all ambassadors and reducing diplomatic relations. For the Biden administration, the verdict should weigh heavily on any relations with the regime. It should dispel any false nostalgia about working with Zarif as a force of influence in Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Targeting a massive crowd to pursue the objective of killing the leader of an opposition movement must not be tolerated. If leaders of free societies fail to hold the regime to account, it will only embolden the regime and those leaders will be complicit in further acts of terrorism by this regime.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You must take into account whom you are dealing with. It does not matter how well spoken the regime\u2019s officials are. These individuals would not be in their position if they were not complicit in the regime\u2019s crimes. Zarif proves this rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Amb. Lincoln Bloomfield, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"616\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Amb.-Lincoln-Bloomfield.jpg\" alt=\"Amb. Lincoln Bloomfield, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs\n\" class=\"wp-image-20983\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Amb.-Lincoln-Bloomfield.jpg 616w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Amb.-Lincoln-Bloomfield-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><figcaption>Amb. Lincoln Bloomfield, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What we have seen is that law enforcement and criminal justice authorities in several European countries have had to deal with the Iranian regime\u2019s terrorist activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What did Zarif say? That this is a false flag operation, that the MEK was going to blow up its own supporters at the event. Now Zarif is lecturing the world to abide by international law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At some point, the U.S. has to realize that we have made gesture after gesture to Iran. For 41 years, this regime has always acted in bad faith. They are still attacking us through proxies. They are aiming the nuclear gun at the rest of the world. They are trying to hold us hostage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What can the U.S. do? We can and should launch a counterintelligence investigation on the Iranian regime\u2019s activities in the U.S. An initiative that has no relation to the nuclear talks must investigate the regime\u2019s human rights abuses and the role of Iranian leaders. We should press for justice on this. Does anyone think the Iranian regime leaders have less blood on their hands than the former leaders of Yugoslavia who stand trial at the Hague? We also need a comprehensive strategy to end 41 years of terrorism. We need to think out of the box. Let us have a new strategy and let us bring the guilty to justice. What the regime has tried to do in Paris is no different from what ISIS has been doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Amb. Marc Ginsberg, U.S. ambassador to Morocco (1994-1998) <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"623\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Amb.-Marc-Ginsberg.jpg\" alt=\"Amb. Marc Ginsberg, \tU.S. ambassador to Morocco (1994-1998), former Deputy Senior Adviser to the U.S. President for Middle East Policy\" class=\"wp-image-20984\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Amb.-Marc-Ginsberg.jpg 623w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Amb.-Marc-Ginsberg-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><figcaption>Amb. Marc Ginsberg, U.S. ambassador to Morocco (1994-1998), former Deputy Senior Adviser to the U.S. President for the Middle East Policy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The JCPOA under the Obama administration was viewed as a \u201cget out of jail\u201d card for the regime. Money flowed to the regime and Zarif became a celebrity. There were hopes the regime would moderate. The facts are basically clear. The JCPOA provided the regime more time to evade sanctions, to gain hard currency, to plot terrorist attacks, to harm our allies, and to continue to plan its nuclear weapons program.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not know what we have to gain from entering the same agreement. The real problem in the last negotiation was that Iran set the terms. That can no longer be the strategy for the Biden administration. We have a responsibility that we take all these recommendations from our allies and Congress to make sure that this does not happen again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Briefing: Focusing on Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry\u2019s Role in State-Sponsored Terrorism On Thursday, February 4, a court in Belgium an Iranian regime diplomat and his three accomplices guilty of plotting to bomb a major Iranian opposition rally back in June 2018 held just north of Paris. 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