Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
The Constitutional Court of Belgium Thursday issued a decision suspending the implementation of the agreement known as the deal with Iran and. This agreement was supposed to allow Belgium and Iran to exchange prisoners for each other. The most prominent of them is Assadollah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat, and Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecastel, who has been held in Iran since February of this year, and there was talk that extraditing Assadi to Iran could have made it possible for Vandecastel to be extradited to Belgium.
In February last year, the Antwerp Criminal Court sentenced Assadi to 20 years in prison for planning a terrorist attack. This attack was aimed at an Iranian opposition gathering in Villepinte, near Paris, in July 2018. It was thwarted only at the last moment. Asadi organized the attack and recruited accomplices.
For its part, the Iranian opposition issued a statement following the issuance of a decision distributed in Brussels, and we received a copy of it, stating that it was in response to the request of Mrs. Dr. Rajavi and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and other plaintiffs, the Belgian Constitutional Court stopped the release of Assadollah Assadi, a diplomat of the mullahs’ terrorist regime, and his transfer to Iran pending examination of the content of the case by the constitutional body. court within three months.
According to the statement, Maryam Rajavi, the elected President of the Iranian Resistance, congratulated the Iranian people on this victory, especially the victims of the mullahs' regime's terrorism, and expressed her hope that this would be a prelude to the prosecution of the perpetrators and those. Responsible for international terrorism, including Ali Khamenei and Ibrahim Raisi, who are responsible for thousands of executions and assassinations inside and outside Iran. According to the statement, in which it was stated, "The Iranian Resistance will continue its political and legal campaign until the end to ensure justice and prevent the release of the terrorist, and it will use all capabilities Judicial and legal if necessary.
The Iranian opposition statement concluded by saying, "The release of al-Asadi, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges of plotting to bomb a gathering of the Iranian resistance in Paris, encourages the religious fascism ruling Iran to continue and intensify terrorism in Europe."