Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has met with diplomat Assadollah Assadi, just lately freed by Belgium in a high-profile prisoner swap case in May, the presidency web site mentioned Saturday.
“The claimants of human rights have shown once again that they do not adhere to any law,” Raisi mentioned in reference to Western international locations in the course of the assembly which passed off on Friday.
They “breached the international rules, regulations and principles by violating the diplomatic immunity of the Iranian diplomat in a clear and unprecedented manner,” he added.
Assadi was sentenced in Belgium to twenty years in jail after he was convicted of enjoying a job in a plot to explode an Iranian opposition occasion in 2018 outdoors Paris.
He, nonetheless, was liberated on May 26 in an Oman-mediated change that noticed Iran releasing Belgian assist employee Olivier Vandecasteele, incarcerated in Tehran for 15 nearly months.
The change occurred after months of heated debates in Belgium particularly within the nation’s parliament.
The 42-year-old Belgian was sentenced in January to 40 years in jail and 74 lashes for “espionage”, Tehran’s judiciary mentioned on the time, after a trial his household and Belgian authorities dubbed “unfair”.
Since May, Oman-mediated negotiations have facilitated the discharge of six European nationals from Iran whereas a number of others stay behind bars.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
