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Iran says won’t recognise Belgium verdict for diplomat By AFP Iran has said it will not recognise any verdict by a Belgian court against a diplomat accused of plotting to bomb an exiled opposition group’s rally. Assadollah Assadi, a diplomat formerly based in Vienna, faces 20 years in prison if convicted of plotting to target a rally for opposition groups based outside Iran, organised in Villepinte outside Paris for June 30, 2018. The rally included the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (MEK), which Tehran considers a “terrorist group†and has banned since 1981. “We have announced many times and from the...
