To Europe with Love: "Diplomats" or Terrorists from Iran's Mullahs?

by Majid Rafizadeh • December 20, 2020 at 5:00 am

The EU would to itself a big favor to realize that Assadi was likely not acting alone. High-level Iranian leaders and diplomats most probably instructed him to carry out the terrorist operation.
It was because of his diplomatic position that Assadi was reportedly able to bring the explosives from Tehran to Vienna without being caught. In other word, Iranian diplomats are key enablers of Khamenei's fundamentalist agenda abroad.
Unless or until Iran's mullahs stop their terror activities, the EU would do itself and the Free World another big favor by cutting off its diplomatic ties with a regime that is murdering European citizens and carrying out terror plots on European soil.

Assadollah Assadi is on trial in Belgium, accused of delivering explosives and a detonator to two agents in a bid to blow up a Free Iran rally in Paris in 2018. Assadi, serving at the Iranian embassy in Vienna, was also a senior officer for Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security. Pictured: Iran's embassy in Vienna, Austria. (Image source: Erich Schmid/Wikimedia Commons)

While the European Union appears excited that Joe Biden will be the next US President and then they can immediately rejoin the nuclear deal and lift sanctions against the mullahs, Tehran continues its terrorism on the European soil.

As the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, is urging the US to rejoin the JCPOA, one of Iran's active diplomats in Belgium is currently on trial, accused of orchestrating a terrorist operation in Europe in 2018. French officials foiled a planned bomb attack in Paris against a large "Free Iran" convention attended by tens of thousands of people, including many high-level speakers such as former US House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Canada's former Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former Foreign Minister John Baird.

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The Biden Parenthesis Opens

by Amir Taheri • December 20, 2020 at 4:00 am

On relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Biden holds the strong card of sanctions devised under Obama and applied under Trump. Obama offered only carrots and failed. Trump offered only stick and didn't achieve his aim of a photo-op with the top mullah, Ali Khamenei, or even Hassan Rouhani. Biden is in a stronger position than Obama or Trump because the Khomeinist regime is weaker than four years ago.
Adopting the Paris Climate Accord is also not easy. Last week, signatories cheekily admitted they had not implemented it.
Many Americans hope that Trump's tenure will prove to be a mere parenthesis. They don't know that Biden's term will also be a parenthesis.

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With the Electoral College confirming Joe Biden as the winner of last month's election, it is almost certain he will be confirmed as the next president of the United States on 6 January.

And, unless something surrealistic happens, he would take the oath of office on 20 January.

What might a Biden presidency look like?

Given the peculiarities of American democracy, such speculation amounts to giving a hostage to fortune. Presidents predicted to lead the nation into disaster turned out to have the safest pairs of hands. Those who inspired romantic dreams dropped into banality as Icarus did when his wings melted.

Some observers believe that Biden's administration will be a third term for former President Barack Obama. Biden was Obama's Vice President for eight years, and a large number of people he has picked in his team are Obama alumni.

I think they are wrong.

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