EU looks for consensus over Iran terror plots

Germany, France and the UK are working to agree a common EU position over alleged Iranian assassination plots on European soil, ahead of an international Middle East conference to be held in Poland


Dec 2015
Ali Motamed – Dutch national of Iranian origin, linked to Iranian opposition group People’s
Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) – killed in Dutch city of Almere

Motamed – real name Mohammad Reza Kolahi Samadi – was accused in Iran of 1981 bombing that killed 73 people at Islamic Republic party’s headquarters in Tehran

Nov 2017
Ahmad Mola Nissi – founder member of Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (ASMLA) – shot dead in The Hague

ASMLA, which seeks separate state in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province, is listed as terrorist group by Iranian government

Jun 2018: France’s security services accuse Iran’s intelligence ministry of being behind foiled plot to bomb MEK rally in northeastern Paris suburb of Villepinte

Sep 23: Tehran summons Dutch, Danish and UK diplomats over alleged harbouring of Iranian
opposition groups following attack on military parade in Khuzestan that killed at least 25 people

Oct 21: Norwegian citizen of Iranian background arrested in Swedish city of Gothenburg over
alleged plot to murder leader of Danish branch of ASMLA


Gothenburg 
SWEDEN
DENMARK
NETHERLANDS
The Hague
Almere
UK
GERMANY
POLAND
Paris
FRANCE

200km 125 miles


Sources: Arab Weekly, Reuters 
Pictures: Twitter 
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