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Treaty Encourages Hostage-Taking, Would Return Convicted Terrorist to Iran

July 5, 2022 – More than 400 leading Iranian human rights activists, dissidents and family members of victims of Iranian state repression and violence have called on the Belgian parliament not to ratify a proposed prisoner swap treaty with Iran.

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Iranian Diplomat Accused of Plotting to Bomb Dissidents Goes on Trial in Belgium

Police officers at the court building in Antwerp, Belgium, on Friday, before the trial of the Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi, who is charged with planning to bomb a meeting of an exiled Iranian opposition group in France.Credit…Johanna Geron/Reuters

Prosecutors say the diplomat, Assadollah Assadi, was carrying out a plan organized by Iran’s intelligence services against an overseas opposition group.

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Iran diplomat on trial over plot to bomb opponents in France

November 25, 2020 – By SAMUEL PETREQUIN – BRUSSELS (AP) — The bomb was meant to explode in a Paris suburb during a huge rally being held by an exiled Iranian opposition group. It could have caused carnage.

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