May 10th 2022 - The Antwerp Court of Appeals in Belgium announced its final ruling, on sentences issued for three accomplices of Assadollah Assadi, a terrorist diplomat of the mullahs’ regime, for plotting to bomb an Iranian Resistance rally in Villepinte, Paris, on June 30, 2018. Assadi had previously been sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2021 and he has never appealed this sentence, nor has he ever appeared in-person in any hearings of this case.
According to the new ruling, the Court of Appeals confirmed the sentence for the other three agents of the clerical regime’s Intelligence Ministry under Assadi’s command (Nasimeh Naami, Amir Saadouni, and Mehrdad Arefani). Naami’s 18 year sentence and Arefani’s 17 year sentence were upheld but Saadouni’s original 15 year sentence was increased to 18 years. They were each also fined €60,000 and have had their Belgian citizenships and passports revoked.
The regime in Iran has been carrying out international terrorist activities since its inception 44 years ago but this is the first time they have been brought to justice for crimes of terrorism. This also makes it the first time that an current and active operative of the regime (Assadollah Assadi) working in the regime’s embassy in Vienna, has been placed on trial.
