Iran state media says diplomat jailed with insufficient evidence

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% :Iran has repeatedly condemned European countries for hosting the MEK, which moved its base from Iraq to Albania during the last decade and holds events across the continent.
45% : Iran also summoned Belgium's envoy in Tehran after Assadi's arrest to express its strong condemnation in February 2021.
40% : It also published purported court documents showing that Assadi argued during his court sessions in Antwerp that the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the umbrella organisation of the MEK, is a "terrorist" organisation.
38% : Assadi, 50, was accused by the Belgian authorities of organising - on behalf of Iranian intelligence - three accomplices to plant a bomb at a gathering of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (also known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK), a Europe-based opposition group, in Villepinte near Paris in June 2018.
38% : Amnesty International said there was mounting evidence Iran was keeping Djalali hostage in an effort to force Belgium and Sweden to hand over Assadi and another ex-official, Hamid Nouri.
35% : The European Union and the United States previously listed MEK as a "terrorist" organisation.
35% : For its part, the Iranian foreign ministry has maintained that Assadi's case constitutes a violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, as Iran claims Assadi was an innocent diplomat who was arrested despite his diplomatic immunity.
32% :Iran has designated the organisation a "terrorist" group, accusing it of carrying out bombing attacks and assassinations and invading Iranian soil with military help from Saddam Hussein during the eight-year Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.
31% : Iranian-born Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali is awaiting execution in Iran on charges of spying for Israel leading to the assassination of nuclear scientists.
30% : Another ongoing contentious case involves prisoners in Iran and Sweden.

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