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Iranian Envoy, 3 Others Face Trial In Belgium Over Terrorism

Iranian Envoy, 3 Others Face Trial In Belgium Over Terrorism

November 28, 2020 5:43 am

An Iranian diplomat and three other Iranians accused of planning to bomb a meeting of an exiled opposition group in France in 2018 went on trial in Belgium on Friday.

This the first time an EU country has put an Iranian official on trial for terrorism. Assadolah Assadi, a Vienna-based diplomat and the three others were charged with plotting an attack on a rally of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) by Belgian prosecutors.

The rally was in the U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani as Keynote Speaker.

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Iranians Mass For Burial In Hometown Of General

January 7, 2020 5:22 pm

Iranians gathered in Kerman for the burial Tuesday of top general Qasem Soleimani in the final stage of funeral processions after he was killed in a US strike in Iraq.

The massive number of mourners in the hometown of the slain commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force foreign operations arm appeared to match the huge turnout seen in the cities of Tehran, Qom, Mashhad and Ahvaz.

A hugely popular figure in the Islamic republic, Soleimani was killed outside Baghdad airport on Friday in a drone strike ordered by US President Donald Trump, ratcheting up tensions with arch-enemy Iran which

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