Thread by @OlivierGuitta

A terror attack in #Paris against the #Iran-ian main opposition group the #MEK was foiled. Attack due to take place during their conference whose speakers included Rudy #Guilani.The 2 arrested terrorists were a couple of Iranian origin living in Belgium bit.ly/2MJbZir

The Belgian couple was arrested in #Brussels a few hours before the attack was to take place at a conference attended by 25,000 people. Police found in their car 500 g of #TATP and detonators. 2 accomplices were arrested in #France and #Germany, including an #Iran-ian diplomat.

The Iranian diplomat based at the Iranian embassy is allegedly a member of Iran secret services and reportedly provided the explosives to the couple in #Luxembourg. The #US intelligences services also allegedly provided #Belgium, #France and #Germany with actionable info.

#Iran-ian regime under the mullahs has of course an extremely long history of killing opponents all around the world starting in 1979. They killed most of the leading figures of the #Shah's regime and the #MEK has for the past 3 decades been on the top of Iran's hit list.

An Iran-ian plot to kill ex #Israel PM #Barak abroad: the background for the "unusual meeting between Shin Bet head and Ehud Barak [was] the concern of an Iranian attempt to harm the former prime minister when he is abroad."
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#Austria is stripping the immunity of an #Iran-ian diplomat suspected of involvement in an alleged plot to bomb a meeting in #France of the #MEK, the largest exiled Iranian opposition group. Maybe would make sense to cancel #Rouhani's visit to #Vienna? bit.ly/2z982BE

What a nerve! #Iran summoned the #French ambassador to protest about the the largest opposition Iranian group, the #MEK ,conference held in Paris over the weekend that the Iranian services incidentally allegedly planned to attack with explosives. bit.ly/2zkUd3d

#France has told its diplomats & FM officials to postpone indefinitely all non-essential travel to #Iran, citing a foiled bomb plot and a hardening of #Tehran’s attitude towards France. France has had a stormy relation with the mullahs since 1979. reut.rs/2Mzw0we

The war of words between #France and #Iran is logically escalating: #Iran’s foreign ministry dismissed a #French call for more negotiations with #Tehran over the international nuclear accord as “bullying and excessive”. reut.rs/2MIr9bQ

The #Iran-ian opposition group #MEK identified a senior regime official it claims is responsible for plotting an expanded programme of terrorist attacks in #Europe. #Iran has allegedly stepped up its terror activities in the West since the start of 2018. bit.ly/2QsrGgt

Another reason for escalation of tensions between #France and #Iran: Iran accused #French police of being too slow to respond to an assault on its embassy in #Paris yesterday by #Kurdish activists outraged by #Tehran’s missile attack on #Koya last week. reut.rs/2NMK9px

#France will not name a new ambassador to #Tehran before getting information from #Iran following a foiled plot to bomb a #MEK, an #Iranian opposition rally in #Paris last June. reut.rs/2Dg658s

#France froze the assets of the interior security section of #Iran’s Intelligence Ministry as well as those of 2 Iranians, one a diplomat who is a suspect in an alleged aborted bid to attack the #MEK-an Iranian exile group- conference in #Paris #Villepinte bit.ly/2P51OGj

More tensions on France-#Iran relations: The move was “preventative, targeted and proportionate,”. It noted #France’s determination to fight terrorism, especially on #French soil. “This act of an extreme gravity envisioned on our territory could not go without a response,”.

Linked to the #Iran-sponsored attack in #Paris, some 200 police officers raided the headquarters in #Dunkirk of a Shiite Islamic association and the homes of its leaders who are suspected of supporting "terrorist organisations". 11 people were arrested. bit.ly/2IvXnSx

The Shiite #Zahra Center raided today is also suspected of having provided support for #Iran-ian terror activities in #France, including in the 30 June plot in #Villepinte. It is allegedly also a big supporter of #Lebanese terror group #Hezbollah & #Hamas. bit.ly/2zLRNbI

The worsening of French-Iranian relations could translate in a redux of the 1985-86 #Iran-led terror campaign in #France. Attacks carried out by #Hezbollah or other Iranian proxies in #France or against #French interests around the world are likely. French authorities worried.

I am surprised this is not a bigger story: a #French diplomatic source has said that the Iran-ian Intelligence Ministry Ordered the terror attack in #Paris #Villepinte during the #MEK conference. Knowing #Iran's history of terrorism in #France in the 1980's, not surprising...

While with #US Defense Secretary #Mattis, #France Defense Minister said that #Iran’s nuclear ballistic programme is a threat and the country’s influence within the Middle East region is a major concern. Don't expect anymore French leniency towards #Tehran. reut.rs/2xSlQxl

#US officials have condemned #Iran over foiled bomb plot in #Paris that France blames on #Tehran. Reason why Europe need to impose more economic pressure on Iran. NSA Bolton welcomed France's response:"What the French have done is exactly the right thing." nbcnews.to/2Nsx0hc

An #Irani-an diplomat based in #Vienna linked to an alleged bomb plot against an #MEK-an Iranian opposition group- rally in #France has been extradited to #Belgium from #Germany. Assadi will appear before the Belgian judge in charge of the case Wednesday. bit.ly/2PpvaPW

An #Iran-ian diplomat and three other individuals were charged by #Belgium on Wednesday with planning to bomb a meeting of an exiled Iranian opposition group- the #MEK- in #France in June. bit.ly/2C6WCxX

Foiled #Paris bomb plot raises fears that #Iran is planning attacks in #Europe. Iran has assigned different units and organizations to conduct surveillance of opposition figures, as well as #Jewish and #Israel-i organizations, in the #US and Europe. wapo.st/2NCr5WT

France has expelled very discreetly an Iranian diplomat in response to a failed plot to carry out a bomb attack at a rally near Paris organized by the #MeK, an exiled Iranian opposition group. France accused Iran's leadership for the failed attack. reut.rs/2OU37Mt

Interestingly yet again, @reuters scooped @afp on the #France-#Iran stories linked to the failed terror plot in #Paris. AFP had historically garnered the exclusivity of such leaks...

Yet again another foiled #Iran-ian-led terror attack abroad: this time in #Denmark, The head of #Danish security service said it had thwarted a suspected Iranian intelligence attempt to kill the leader of a Danish-Iranian opposition group last month. dailym.ai/2OZdJtr

#Iran seems to be leading a targeted assassination campaign of opponents living abroad, exactly as it did in the 1980's when the #Khomeiny regime killed or attempted to kill members of the #Shah's government. Time for the West to react forcefully. #France and the #US are.

#Denmark recalling its ambassador to #Tehran. Denmark will push for fresh #EU-wide sanctions against #Iran following a suspected attempted targeted attack by an Iranian intelligence service on #Danish soil reut.rs/2JtiK7p

#Iran-ians with fake #Israel-i passports detained in #Bulgaria.
It is unclear, how they traveled through #Turkey and why they sought to enter Bulgaria posing as Israelis. bit.ly/2PIsh04

Strong message to #Tehran from the usually spineless EU: The #EU has agreed sanctions against an #Iran-ian intelligence service for planning assassinations in #Europe, #Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said reut.rs/2GWOHY6

The #Dutch government has accused #Iran of hiring criminal gangs to murder two Iranian dissidents in the #Netherlands bit.ly/2FbVbk8

2 men have been arrested in #California for spying for #Iran. The men’s goal, authorities say, was to conduct surveillance on #Israel-i and #Jewish facilities in the #US, and to collect information on members of the opposition group #MEK. lat.ms/2VUWYzh

The men also flew back and forth between #Iran and #LosAngeles International Airport, and appeared to be assembling “target packages” — dossiers that would “enable an intelligence or military unit to find, fix, track and neutralize a threat,”

Now that a #French Ambassador to #Tehran has been named, did #France really get information about the #Iran plot to attack the #MeK convention in #Paris last year? Would love to hear about it...

#France Interior Minister has asked for the banning of four Shiite extremist organisations that preached armed jihad and support terrorist groups such as #Hezbollah, #Hamas and #Palestinian Islamic Jihad. bit.ly/2TmfbDk

#Europe would have to reimpose sanctions on #Iran if #Tehran reneged on parts of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, a #French presidency source said Tuesday. bit.ly/2Wy2hVe

#US Secretary of State #Pompeo arrived in the #UK #London on a delicate mission aimed at convincing #Washington's crucial #European ally to back its tough stances on #Iran and #China- the #Huawei 5G contract-. yhoo.it/2LwVpGL

Unsurprising tactic: Dissidents are being terrorised by “armed” #Iran-ian agents on the streets of #Scotland who threatened to kill them and their families in Iran if they did not halt their political opposition. bit.ly/30lr0OX

Interesting that #French secret services have been instructed to tone down their criticism of the #Iran-ian regime, especially when it comes to "state terrorism", a well-deserved label for #Tehran. Seems #France President #Macron wants to save the #JCPOA at all costs...

The total turnaround of #France President #Macron towards #Iran, trying to broker a deal with #US #Trump at all costs, is a huge shift of French's policy towards #Iran post-1979. Remember that France had the strongest stance vis-a vis Iran to the run-up of the #JCPOA.

#Iran said Monday its views have been converging with those of #France on ways to save a nuclear deal at risk of unravelling since the #US withdrew last year. yhoo.it/2lzBlXn

#Macron had allegedly proposed offering Iran a $15B line of credit on condition it returns to the fold. "Macron has proposed Iran stop its third step for now in exchange for this sum, and maybe retreat from its first and second steps to the initial situation," Iranian MP Motahari