Last week, French officials declared that they had conclusively identified Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) as the party responsible for a foiled bombing attempt in Paris in late June. European officials have arrested several individuals connected to the case, and the French have designated two intelligence officers. A key question, however, remains unanswered: which senior Iranian official gave the order?

According to prosecutors and officials, Saeid Hashemi Moghaddam, deputy minister and director general of intelligence at MOIS, issued an order to bomb an annual meeting of exiled opposition group Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO), which helped in the overthrow of the monarch in 1979 but fell out of favor with the Islamic Republic. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and several former European and Arab ministers attended the event. Moghaddam chose Asadollah Asadi, whom prosecutors have described as a MOIS officer tasked with monitoring domestic and foreign opposition groups and whose cover is an Iranian diplomat based in Vienna, Austria. Asadi hired a Belgian-Iranian couple in March 2018 to carry out the attack. The trio met in Luxembourg, where Asadi gave them a device containing 500 grams of TATP (triacetone triperoxide), a home-made explosive produce of easily available chemicals.

On the day the couple was set to carry out the attack, Belgian officials detained them in the Brussels area, and found the explosives and detonator in their Mercedes. German authorities arrested Asadi in the town of Aschaffenburg. French authorities arrested a fourth man in Paris, according to the New York Times. AFP later said that Belgian police believe he is an accomplice of the couple. The article identified him as “Merhad A.,” which is likely a misspelling of the Persian name Mehrad.

The Mossad reportedly tipped German, French, and Belgium intelligence services about the plot, and a joint task force thwarted it.

Tehran has denied involvement.
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Na de liquidaties van Iran in Almere en Den Haag wilden ze een bom laten ontploffen in Parijs. Ze worden steeds gekker.