Iranian diplomat Asadollah Assadi, sentenced to 20 years in prison in Belgium, has deopped appeal to jail in the country and will serve his sentence. Assadi decided not to appeal, his lawyer Dimitri de Beco told reporters in Antwerp, the Belgian city where he was sentenced on Feb. 4. "This has been a political trial since the beginning ...

Press TV - Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says an Iranian diplomat, who was arrested in Germany on the false charges of being linked to a bomb attack plot in the French capital, Paris, enjoys full diplomatic immunity. Bahram Qassemi made the remarks on Sunday in reaction to earlier reports in certain media outlets quoting him as saying that immunity ...

IFP - Iran says Germanys ambassador to Tehran has been summoned to the foreign ministry over a German courts verdict on extradition of an Iranian diplomat to Belgium. In a Wednesday statement, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said German ambassador to Tehran Michael Klor-Berchtold was summoned on Wednesday in protest at the courts ruling ...

Euronews - A diplomatic row has broken out between France and Iran after Paris accused Tehran of plotting to bomb an exiled Iranian opposition groups rally near Paris in June. The French government has claimed that Irans intelligence ministry was responsible. It follows the arrest of several people in Europe over the alleged plot. Tehran ...

FNA - Iran's foreign ministry blasted France for freezing assets belonging to Iranian nationals in response to an alleged plot in June to attack a gathering of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCRI) terrorist group in Paris, calling on the French officials to decide based on realities. "The Islamic Republic of ...

Sputnik - Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi, who is believed to be an intelligence agent, ordered a couple to attack the rally and had given them the explosives at a June meeting in Luxembourg. Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi, linked toan alleged bomb plot againstan Iranian opposition rally, will be extradited fromGermany according ...

AP Austrias chancellor on Wednesday asked visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for full clarification of the case of a Vienna-based Iranian diplomat suspected of involvement in a plot to bomb an Iranian opposition rally in Europe. Rouhani was in Vienna, where his countrys nuclear agreement with world powers was drawn up three years ago, to ...