Paris Bomb Plot News Today

Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele is released from detention in Iran in a prisoner exchange. Iran frees a convicted diplomat in return.

Iran diplomat given 20 years for Paris bomb plot AFP 5th February, 2021 10:55:26 A Belgian court jailed an Iranian diplomat for 20 years on Thursday after convicting him of plotting the thwarted 2018 bombing of an opposition rally outside Paris. The trial was conducted under tight security in the Belgian port of Antwerp and has further poisoned already tense relations between Tehran and European capitals. The terrorism conviction was also claimed as a victory by cheering onlookers from the exil...