Three Iranian agents who attempted a terrorist plot in Paris had their appeal reviewed by a court in Antwerp, Belgium, on Thursday. According to incontrovertible evidence and Belgian prosecutors’ investigations, Assadi was the planner of a bomb assault on the Free Iran 2018 Rally, the annual gathering of the Iranian opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), on 30 June 2018.
The status of negotiations regarding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) remained uncertain at the close of the week, as relevant parties attempted to promote a positive perspective but failed to offer any particular areas of progress. The Iranian regime’s blackmail methods and efforts to walk back compromises that had been established during six earlier sessions of the talks were heavily criticized as soon as the discussions reopened in Vienna on December 6 after a five-month suspension.
Last week, in Vienna, the long-awaited seventh round of talks aimed at salvaging the 2015 Iran nuclear deal finished. Little progress was made, and the process actually went backward after Ali Bagheri Kani, the Iranian regime’s chief negotiator at the talks, declared that Tehran was free to re-examine all of the terms that had been informally agreed upon before the discussions stagnated in June.
In a conference held on Tuesday, December 7, members of the European Parliament urged their countries to focus on human rights violations. MEPs, prominent European politicians, and Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), spoke at the conference, which took place on the eve of International Human Rights Day on December 10.
On December 7, 2021, the European Parliament’s Friends of a Free Iran (FoFI) issued a statement stating that “On the eve of World Human Rights Day, 100 MEPs, including 14 former ministers, including foreign ministers, call on the EU and member states to recognize the 1988 massacre in Iran as genocide and a crime against humanity, and to adopt a firm policy in the nuclear negotiations.”
Last week, the most recent attempts to resurrect the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran failed. The Iranian regime, as expected, intensified its nuclear extortion. On November 29, three days after resuming negotiations with international powers, Tehran accelerated building on a nuclear site buried deep into a mountain. It also adds to a laundry list of maximalist demands at the same time. As a result of all of this, even Europeans have warned that unless Tehran changes its attitude immediately, the negotiations would fail.
A group of prominent European legislators attended a conference on the eve of International Human Rights Day on December 10 to discuss Iran’s deteriorating human rights status. Members of the European Parliament have called on the EU and its member states to recognize the “genocide and crime against humanity” committed in Iran in 1988.
The seventh round of nuclear talks between Iran’s rulers and international powers concluded on December 3, in Vienna. European officials have voiced dissatisfaction and alarm about the conclusion of the negotiations, according to various foreign media networks.
Hamid Noury, a former Iranian jail officer, testified in his own defense in five sessions in a Stockholm court over the last two weeks. Noury is charged with war crimes and mass murder for his role in the 1988 massacre of Iranian political detainees.
The present surge of protest in Iran is the result of years of corruption, oppression, and mismanagement by the regime. As a consequence, a slew of economic and societal issues has built up to the point of exploding.
