More often than not, it is terrorists who plan and make threats against the political leaders & diplomats.
But what is a diplomat themselves is a part of the plot?
An Iranian diplomat has been arrested along with two people suspected of plotting a bomb attack on a meeting of an exiled Iranian opposition group in France attended by Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Belgian authorities said on Monday.
Three other arrests were made in France.
Several former European and Arab ministers also attended the meeting of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) – an umbrella bloc of opposition groups in exile that seek an end to clerical rule in Iran.
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Two suspects in Belgium were intercepted by Belgian police on Saturday, with 500 grams of TATP, a home-made explosive produced from easily available chemicals, as well as a detonation device found in their car, a joint statement by the Belgian prosecutor and the intelligence services said.
The 38-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman, identified only as Amir S. and Nasimeh N., were charged with attempted terrorist murder and preparation of a terrorist act, it said.
The diplomat at the Iranian embassy in the Austrian capital Vienna was arrested in Germany, the Belgian statement said.
Three people, including at least one Iranian, were arrested in France to assess their link to the Brussels’ suspects, a French judicial source said. Staff at the embassy said the ambassador was not immediately available for comment. Iranian officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The Belgian statement gave no further details about diplomat, other than saying they were suspected of having been in contact with the Belgian pair arrested.
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