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Tehran designates 61 prominent Americans including 30 bi-partisan sitting Members of U.S.

Congress for their opposition to the prior designation of the main Iranian opposition movement, the MEK, and to #Iran regime’s killing of its members. en.mfa.ir/portal/NewsVie…
@A_Jafarzadeh

A large number of those designated by the Iranian regime, are would be targets of the regime’s terror plot by convicted diplomat Asadollah Assadi, in the 2018 Free #Iran World Summit in Paris.

Tehran is seeking a controversial deal with Belgium to free Assadi. #DontFreeTerrorists
@A_Jafarzadeh

These 61 Americans sanctioned by #Iran's regime are fighting state-sponsored terrorism by the ruling theocracy in Iran. Today’s designation should be an added reason why Belgium must not return the regime’s convicted terrorist Assadi, as a gift to Tehran.

https://twitter.com/SFRCdems/status/1544450630072279040

Senate Foreign Relations Committee
@SFRCdems
A Belgium-#Iran treaty must uphold Belgium’s intl obligations & cannot grant impunity to Assadollah Asadi or any other actor responsible for human rights violations & heinous acts of terrorism.

Iran must be held to account for backing terrorism & taking hostages for leverage. twitter.com/POLITICOEurope…
@A_Jafarzadeh

With the 61 Americans designated today by the regime's Foreign Affairs Ministry, releasing terrorist diplomat, Asadollah Assadi and Tehran’s agents is wrong, counterproductive & also a clear violation of international law, as well as UNSC Resolution 1373.

#DontFreeTerrorists
@A_Jafarzadeh

Iran's regime designation of 61 Americans is a desperate reaction to the July 14th Swedish court which sentenced Hamid Nouri to life imprisonment for #1988Massacre and huge U.S.

and global outrage against Belgium's pending decision to return a convicted terrorist back to #Tehran.
@A_Jafarzadeh

Evident in sanctioning 61 Americans is Tehran's concerns about success & capabilities of the alternative to the regime, i.e., NCRI & its pivotal force,

#MEK which has had big success inside #Iran fighting the regime & expanding Resistance Units to #FreeIran.ncr-iran.org/en/news/iran-r…
@A_Jafarzadeh

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In fact, several of these prominent American officials endorsed my 2020 book #Iran’s Resurgent Resistance: amazon.com/Irans-Resurgen… @WHNSC @StateDept 🇺🇸
@ProfSheehan

Between 2013-2019, I was also proud to join Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield (@LBJunior) in several scholarly efforts to better understand #Iran’s pro-#democracy opposition. The latest: ubalt.edu/about-ub/news-… @WHNSC @StateDept 🇺🇸
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