Thread by @mahya_saber

Thread:
Why it's time for EU and other countries to #ShutDownIranTerrorEmbassies
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1-After the 1979 Islamic revolution, Tehran has used a wide range of terrorist organizations to export its "revolution" and to assassinate Iranian dissidents around the globe
#EUTime4FirmIranPolicy
@eu_eeas @JosepBorrellF @GermanyDiplo @BelgiumMFA @francediplo_EN @DutchMFA

2-Today, IRGC-QF is active across the Middle East and has plotted or carried out terrorist attacks in5⃣out of7⃣ continents!
#ShutDownIranTerrorEmbassies
@DutchMFA @NorwayMFA @ItalyMFA @SwissMFA @SweMFA

3-Where the regime is unable or unwilling to act directly, it has mastered the use of terrorist proxy groups like Lebanese Hezbollah, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Bahraini AlAshtar Brigades & Iraqi Kata’ib Hizballah to conduct attacks throughout the middle east
#BlacklistIRGC

4-Tehran played a major role in forming Hezbollah & helping it conduct attacks in Lebanon, including 1983 bombings of US Marine barracks & embassy, which together killed more than 300 people!
#ShutDownIranTerrorEmbassies
@SwissMFA @SweMFA @MFA_Austria @FCDOGovUK @Ulkoministerio

5-June 26, 1996
Iranian backed terrorists exploded a massive truck bomb outside Khobar towers military housing projects in KSA, killing 19 Americans, 1 Saudi, and wounding almost 400 innocent people
#BlacklistIRGC #ShutDownIranTerrorEmbassies
@CzechMFA @MFA_Lu @SpainMFA @CanadaFP

6-A senior US defense official in Sept. linked the arrests in Ethiopia to a failed Iranian plan to kill the US ambassador to South Africa!
#ShutDownIranTerrorEmbassies
@USABehFarsi

7-In Kenya, 2 Iranians were arrested in 2012, and charged with possession of 15kg of explosives
They are now serving a 15yrs prison sentence!
#EUTime4FirmIranPolicy
#BlacklistIRGC
@eu_eeas @JosepBorrellF

8- 2016, Kenya once again deported2⃣Iranians who had been arrested outside Israeli Embassy with video footage of the facility, Iran said the two men who had been travelling with diplomatic cars were "University teachers"
#BlacklistMOIS #ShutDownIranTerrorEmbassies

9-But Iran's terrorism doesn't stop in the middle east.
Iranian-backed groups also regularly attack Iranian dissidents in Europe mostly of MOIS agents working thru Iran's embassies
#BlacklistMOIS #ShutDownIranTerrorEmbassies

10-And the very latest, Feb 4, a Belgian court stripped an Iranian envoy of his diplomatic status and sentenced him to 20yrs in prison for having organized and thwarted bomb attack aimed at an Iranian opposition rally in France 2018
#ShutDownIranTerrorEmbassies

11-Prior to that, Albania🇦🇱expelled an Iranian accused of spying on MEK in July 2020, the largest opposition group living in Albania
#ShutDownIranTerrorEmbassies
@GermanyDiplo @BelgiumMFA @francediplo_EN @DutchMFA

12-January 15,2020, Albania ordered two Iranian diplomats to leave the country within 72hours saying they pose "a serious threat" to Albania
#ShutDownIranTerrorEmbassies

13-In previous years, in France, Switzerland&Germany, were also countries where Iranian spies had been planning & taking out terrorist attacks against Iranian dissidents through the Iranian embassy
#ShutDownIranTerrorEmbassies
@GermanyDiplo @BelgiumMFA @francediplo_EN @DutchMFA

14-The only solution to put an end to Iran's terrorism throughout Europe, is to #ShutDownIranTerrorEmbassies and expel their diplomats who are spies and recruit agents against Iranian dissidents
#BlacklistMOIS #EUTime4FirmIranPolicy
@eu_eeas @JosepBorrellF @CanadaFP @USABehFarsi